Kerala: HOD surgery Handed over Transfer Orders after protest from Hospital Nurses
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Kottayam: A constricted protest by the nursing community at Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) against a senior surgeon has now led to a "punishment" transfer of the doctor. The nurses made allegations on the doctor of psychologically torturing a trainee nurse.
The matter concerns head of the Department of General Surgery at the hospital, who was given a transfer letter from the health minister's office on account of mentally torturing a trainee nurse by asking her to lie down in a ward while keeping a tray of medicines over her body.
The nurses alleged that the trainee nurse left the tray on the bed by mistake and went to attend a patient who was just brought to the ICU ward. Though she came back and briefed the doctor about the emergency situation, he directed her to lie on a vacant bed in the same ward and place the tray on her body till he completed his rounds in the ward.
The nurse then filed a complaint with the hospital administration, but no action was allegedly taken against the doctor. The nursing staff of the hospital went on a two-hour strike issue forcing the medical college authorities to invite them for talks.
The matter concerns head of the Department of General Surgery at the hospital, who was given a transfer letter from the health minister's office on account of mentally torturing a trainee nurse by asking her to lie down in a ward while keeping a tray of medicines over her body.
The nurses alleged that the trainee nurse left the tray on the bed by mistake and went to attend a patient who was just brought to the ICU ward. Though she came back and briefed the doctor about the emergency situation, he directed her to lie on a vacant bed in the same ward and place the tray on her body till he completed his rounds in the ward.
The nurse then filed a complaint with the hospital administration, but no action was allegedly taken against the doctor. The nursing staff of the hospital went on a two-hour strike issue forcing the medical college authorities to invite them for talks.
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