Agitating doctors to start parallel OPD at Vimsar
Subrat Mohanty | TNN | Updated: Dec 2, 2018, 13:26 IST
Picture for representational purpose onlySAMBALPUR: Junior doctors of the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Vimsar) at Burla, who have been on ceasework demanding the removal of director Ashwini Pujahari, will start a parallel out-patients department (OPD) at the spot of the agitation from Monday.
The doctors have been protesting since November 17 against the alleged unlawful acitivities of Pujahari. The Junior Doctors Association (JDA) has said Pujahari harasses and humiliates poor patients regularly, conducts experimental surgeries on poor patients without their consent and without the clearance of the ethical committee, supports self-proclaimed social workers who have allegedly been trying to create unrest in the institution, threatens undergraduate and postgraduate students to implicate them in false cases, and misbehaves with girl students in the name of moral policing.
On Friday, Pujahari had sent an 'SOS' note to the government asking for more doctors as treatment of patients had been suffering at Vimsar.
"We will start a parallel OPD to ensure that patient care is not affected at Vimsar," said vice-president of the JDA, Himanshu Mishra, while addressing a press meet here on Saturday.
"However, we will continue our agitation till our demand for the removal of the director is met," said Mishra.
A four-member team of the health department had also visited Vimsar to inquire into the veracity of the allegations made against the director on November 26. The team also met representatives of the JDA, Pujahari and members of many social organisations of Burla and Sambalpur on November 26 and 27.
On Saturday, the JDA showed alleged evidence of how the director had allegedly conducted experimental surgeries on destitute patients without their consent and without the clearance of the ethical committee. "We have submitted the required documents which will substantiate our allegations, to the inquiry committee that had come to Vimsar. We have also lodged a complaint with police in this regard," said Mishra.
The doctors have been protesting since November 17 against the alleged unlawful acitivities of Pujahari. The Junior Doctors Association (JDA) has said Pujahari harasses and humiliates poor patients regularly, conducts experimental surgeries on poor patients without their consent and without the clearance of the ethical committee, supports self-proclaimed social workers who have allegedly been trying to create unrest in the institution, threatens undergraduate and postgraduate students to implicate them in false cases, and misbehaves with girl students in the name of moral policing.
On Friday, Pujahari had sent an 'SOS' note to the government asking for more doctors as treatment of patients had been suffering at Vimsar.
"We will start a parallel OPD to ensure that patient care is not affected at Vimsar," said vice-president of the JDA, Himanshu Mishra, while addressing a press meet here on Saturday.
"However, we will continue our agitation till our demand for the removal of the director is met," said Mishra.
A four-member team of the health department had also visited Vimsar to inquire into the veracity of the allegations made against the director on November 26. The team also met representatives of the JDA, Pujahari and members of many social organisations of Burla and Sambalpur on November 26 and 27.
On Saturday, the JDA showed alleged evidence of how the director had allegedly conducted experimental surgeries on destitute patients without their consent and without the clearance of the ethical committee. "We have submitted the required documents which will substantiate our allegations, to the inquiry committee that had come to Vimsar. We have also lodged a complaint with police in this regard," said Mishra.
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