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AIIMS issues ‘ad hoc job letters’

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Institute claims to be acting for the welfare of patients

NEW DELHI: Claiming to be acting for the welfare of patients, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Registrar Sandeep Agarwala has issued “temporary appointment letters” to its senior residents asking them to join duty immediately.

The Institute had withheld declaration of results of its senior residency selection examination-cum-interview held this past month for over 15 days in the wake of allegations that the Institute’s administration had discriminated against students from the reserved category.

While Institute spokesperson Shakti Kumar Gupta maintained that the results were withheld because the administration needed to seek legal advice on the issue, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss had last week directed a high-power three-member committee to look into the matter.

Committee

He had also directed the Institute to “hand over all relevant papers on the matter to the committee which consisted of the Union Health Secretary, Director General of Health Services and a member of the Institute Governing Body”.

In the latest order, Dr. Agarwala has stated: “Pending legal opinion, considering the exigency of the services and patients care, the Director is pleased to offer temporary appointment to senior residents for one month or till further orders which ever is earlier. This appointment of the candidate will be without his/her right to the post or to the continuity and will be effective from the date of acceptance.”

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