Jammu And Kashmir: A Senior Pharmacist Suspended For Getting Drunk On Duty
Jammu & Kashmir : After a video of a senior pharmacist seen in an inebriated condition went viral, he was suspended from the government-run hospital in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, according to a senior health department official.
The over two-minute video, reportedly shot inside the doctor's room at Trauma hospital Mahanpur last night, showed the official Ashok Kumar being confronted by a man for being drunk on-duty. The man, accompanying an ailing child, took him as a doctor and asked him to treat the patient before questioning him for being drunk, the official said.
Taking a serious note of the incident, chief medical officer, Kathua, Ashok Chaudhary ordered the immediate suspension of Kumar and an inquiry has been ordered against him.
"Prima facie, it appears the official is drunk on duty and was accordingly placed under suspension by the chief medical officer. An inquiry has also been ordered by him into the incident," a senior health department official told PTI.
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