Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram   

Action against 144 doctors

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Minister for Health P.K. Sreemathy has asked the Department of Health to recover the salary and benefits received by 144 doctors who, after completing the medical post graduate course under the in-service quota, failed to rejoin government service.

A press note issued here said the list of doctors who, since 1997, failed to rejoin government duty was complied on the orders of the Health Minister.

The salary and other benefits received by these doctors during the course of their study as per deputation norms will now be recovered.

According to the bond executed by such doctors they would have to continue in government service for at least seven years after completion of the post graduate (PG) course.

Otherwise, the salary and benefits the received can be recovered and the government can also claim compensation, the bond stipulates.

The press release said the Department of Health and the Directorate of Medical Education had no data relating to such doctors till now. It has now come to light that 22 doctors serving in the Medical Colleges in the State who did the PG course under the deputation norms since 1997 failed to rejoin government service. As many as 634 doctors from the health department had similarly signed up for the PG medical courses. Of these only 512, rejoined government service.

The government had, earlier, dismissed from service 224 doctors in the health department and 175 doctors in the Directorate of Medical Education for unauthorised absence from service. Steps have also been taken to make fresh appointments in their place. In the meantime the Health Minister received information about doctors who failed to rejoin duty after their PG course. It was then that Ms. Sreemathy ordered an investigation into the matter, the press note added.

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