Nurses Union Alleges CTVS Professor of harassment, AIIMS orders inquiry

New Delhi: Inquiry has been initiated against a senior faculty member at the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) based on the accusations that the professor had allegedly intimidated, threatened and verbally abused three nursing officers in public while delivering their official duty at a Namaste Campaign.

According to the Nursing union, which held a protest recently demanding action against the professor of Cardiothoracic And Vascular Surgery (CTVS) department at AIIMS, the senior faculty allegedly used abusive language at three nursing officers on duty on November 18 and had torn posters of their campaign.

The campaign, organised by the Hospital Infection Control Team of the Cardio-Thoracic Centre (CTC) department of AIIMS, was launched as part of the Save Antibiotics Week. The campaign aimed to make people aware that shaking hands can lead to the transfer of infection from one person to another and so people should greet each other with namaste.

It has been alleged that the doctor while passing by them questioned the validity of the campaign and also tore campaign posters off the wall. Aggrieved with the alleged incident, the nurses complained to the AIIMS Nurses' Union which accordingly appointed a committee to look into the issue.