36 Faculties transferred from Chennai ESIC Medical College, Medicos stage Protest

Chennai: Upset with the transfer of altogether 36 faculty members, hundreds of medical students from the ESIC Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in KK Nagar protested against the decision taken by the ESIC headquarters.

The students have alleged that in the middle of the academic year, the entire batch of teachers for the freshmen anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry have been transferred to ESIC Medical College in Bengaluru, whereas the staff from the Bengaluru campus have been moved to Chennai.

Allegedly, most of the teachers who teach microbiology, pharmacology and pathology for the second-year students have also been transferred along with the faculties in anaesthesia and obstetrics-gynecology.

Protesting against the decision of the authorities in this regard, around 500 UG medical students belonging to the medical college raised slogans, and marched on the campus holding placards.

Students are upset with the decision of changing all the faculty members in the middle of the year when they will write their examinations in December.

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As per the latest media report by the Times of India, more than 70 doctors from ESIC Chennai, including the vice-principal and registrar have been posted somewhere else. Speaking about their problems, one of the students of the medical college told the daily, "We will be having exams in December. It is unfair to change all faculty members in one go in the middle of the year."

The daily adds that the ESIC management has claimed that this was a routine transfer in compliance with the service rule. However, the teachers and students have expressed different opinion as they have claimed that such transfers cannot be done in the middle of the academic year.

While commenting on the matter, a senior administrator told the daily, "We have received the complaints and grievances. We will forward them to the authorities concerned."

DT Text adds that after transferring 35 faculty members, only 27 posts have been filled. The protesting students have demanded an immediate revocation of the recent transfers and they have also demanded an amendment of the current ESIC Transfer Policy.

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