57 Doctors may face termination for unauthorised leave in Kerala
KOZHIKODE: Absenteeism has landed 57 doctors into trouble after the Medical Education Department (DME) has served a 15-day ultimatum to the said doctors for being absent from their duties for a long periods of time without prior leave notice and any other information.
The DME strictly stated in the notice that if the absentee doctors do not report within 15 days of their appointed duties they will be surely terminated with their duties.
Among the doctors, including professors and lecturers, 15 last worked at Kottayam medical college, 11 at Alappuzha medical college, seven each at Kozhikode and Thrissur medical colleges and four at Manjery medical college, reports Deccan Chronicle. It is also reported that the majority of them a presumed to bere practising abroad and a few in private hospitals in and outside the state.
"Their unauthorised absence has been posing a major problem in promotion and reporting vacancy to the Public Service Commission. Many intimations had been sent to them, but to no avail," DME director Dr A. Remla Beevi told the daily. DME director further informed that unauthorised absence can only be permitted to a period of one year.
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