Join Duty or Submit penalty within 15 days: Uttarakhand Govt's ultimatum for bonded doctors
Dehradun: Warning the absent doctors, who were bonded either on contractual or permanent basis, the Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare, Uttarakhand has issued an ultimatum asking the doctors to either join duties or submit the penalty amount for avoiding bond service within 15 days from the publication of the notice.
Issuing a notice in this regard, the Uttarakhand Government has given the doctors two options- either to join duties within 15 days or get freed from the bond liabilities by submitting the penalty amount to the principal of Government Medical College, Srinagar and Government Medical College, Haldwani.
"Apart from this, notice is also issued to all those bonded doctors who are absent from their place of posting, they should ensure to be present in the Directorate General regarding their absence with evidence within 5 days from the date of publication of this notice," the notice further read.
Such an action was taken by the State Health Department against the bond holders who had completed their MBBS examination from Government Medical College, Haldwani, Nainital and Government Medical College, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand State Government Medical College, Haldwani, Garhwal, Uttarakhand at concessional rates by filling security bond.
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