6 AIIMS Bhopal doctors resign over Administrative lapses
Bhopal: Over the past year, altogether six senior doctors from four departments at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, have resigned due to alleged lack of administrative improvement in the institute's departments despite repeated appeals for reform.
The resignations came from specialists in oncology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, and neonatology. Of the six, three doctors were from the oncology department, and the others were from the paediatric, the orthopaedic, and the neonatology departments. Those who resigned include Dr Sachin Bansal (Clinical Haematology), Dr Shashank Bansal (Medical Oncology), Dr Nilesh Srivastava (Surgical Oncology), Dr Manoj Nagar (Orthopaedics), Dr Priya Gogoi (Paediatrics) and Dr Mahendra Jain (Neonatology).
According to news reports, the doctors who resigned mainly cited poor functioning of the institute, including issues such as inflated medicine prices, the absence of a blood separator machine for the past two years, and a lack of progress in developing tertiary healthcare facilities for oncology.
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The issue comes at a time when the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently sent a team to AIIMS Bhopal to investigate complaints about high medicine prices. Medical Dialogues last month reported that Bhopal MP Alok Sharma alleged that medicines are purchased at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhopal at inflated prices. In response, a team of officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) visited the institute to check the documents related to the purchase of medicines. The central team examined the documents related to the purchase of medicines.
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