33 Assistant Professors pay price for unauthorized absence, terminated by Telangana DME

Hyderabad: Telangana based 33 Assistant Professors recently faced the wrath of Government and got terminated from their service by the State Director of Medical Education department because of their long term unauthorized absence in their service.

Employed at several Government institutes in the State, some of these doctors were absent from their duties since 2001, around 21 years ago. However, in case of some doctors the period of unauthorized absence started from 2019 or 2020.

Specialty wise, this list of 33 Assistant Professors include 3 from Pharmacology, 1 from TBCD, 1 from Pediatric Surgery, 4 from OBG, 4 from Anesthesia, 3 from Pediatrics, 3 from General Surgery, 2 from General Medicine, 2 from Nephrology, 1 from Opthalmology, 2 from Neurology, 1 from Radio-Diagnosis, 1 from Medical Oncology, 1 from Micro-Biology, 1 from Radiology, 1 from Pathology, 1 from CT Surgery, and 1 from Orthopedics.

Institute wise, a major number of 12 doctors, who have been terminated from service, belonged to Osmania Medical College Hyderabad. Among the rest of the doctors, 2 are from Govt. General and Chest Hospital Hyderabad, 3 from Nilloufer Hospital Hyderabad, 2 from Govt. Maternity Hospital Nayapul, 1 from MNJIO&RCC Hyderabad, 2 from Govt. Medical College Mahabubnagar, 4 from Gandhi Medical College Sec-bad, 3 from Govt. Medical College Siddipet, 2 from Govt. Medical College Nizamabad, 1 from Govt. Medical College Nalgonda, and 1 from Govt. Maternity Hospital Hanamkonda.

Even though the DME had issued show cause notices to these doctors, 29 out of 33 doctors did not submit any explanation for their absence. The rest of the doctors submitted their explanation and some of them expressed their willingness to serve at a particular place and taking note of this, the DME did not consider their explanation and terminated them from service.

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Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that Telangana DME had initiated termination proceedings against 38 assistant Professors for their long term "unauthorised absence" in various institutes.