Transfer of 42 more Doctors cancelled by UP Government for defying norms

Lucknow: Days after CM Yogi Adityanath cancelled the transfer of 48 doctors as they went against the state's transfer policy, the transfer orders of 42 more doctors who are part of the Provincial Medical Service (PMS) were also cancelled after they were found to be against the norm as well, which has now taken the total number of cancelled transfers in the state to 90. 

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about the applications filed by around 100 doctors to rectify their transfer order issued by the health department because of various anomalies. Some of the anomalies found in the transfer include transfer with two years left for retirement, transfer in violation of couple posting and transfer within one year of previous transfer. The team had also reported about the cancelled transfer orders of the first 48 doctors. 

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These doctors were transferred from the government level. The Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak took notice of the irregular transfers after an internal enquiry and subsequently asked the health department to cancel the transfer orders, reports India Today.

A probe under Chief Secretary DS Mishra was held after the transferred doctors began protesting. The probe report revealed the anomalies based on which the transfer order of 48 doctors figuring on the list of 313 level 1 doctors was cancelled. The probe revealed that these transfers were done at the level of the Medical and Health directorate, which goes against the transfer rule according to which the doctors of levels 2 and 3 should be transferred by the state administration only.  

An inquiry was also constituted against eight officials at the directorate general level. Action is yet to be taken against those responsible for irregularities at the government level. Out of the total 2,200 doctors of the PMS cadre who were transferred, 350 doctors were from level one, and the rest 1,850 doctors were from level two and above. 

The doctors and other medical staff have been protesting against the transfer orders issued by the health department since the first week of July, alleging them to be violating the state transfer policy. The Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak had also sought a reply from the additional chief secretary, medical health, Amit Mohan Prasad, on this issue. 

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