OOPS : Doctor holds medical procedure-based pre-wedding shoot inside govt hospital OT, dismissed
Bengaluru: The idea of holding a pre-wedding shoot inside a government-run hospital, proved heavy for a young doctor Dr Abhishek, after he was dimissed from his duty as his shoot went viral on social media.
A doctor was dismissed from service on Friday soon after a video of his pre-wedding photo shoot held inside an operation theatre of a government-run hospital in Karnataka's Chitradurga district went viral, officials said.
The video shoot
The video concerns a young doctor who had taken charge as a health officer at the hospital a month back.
A controversy had erupted after a video went viral on social media showing his photo shoot, themed on medical procedures, of the contract-based physician at the district hospital in the Bharamasagar area.
In the video, the doctor could be seen performing a “surgery” on a patient, while his partner was assisting him. At the end of the video, the man who acted as a patient on whom the surgery was being performed was seen sitting up “post-operation”. The video also showed people with cameras and lights present in the operation theatre for the pre-wedding shoot.
Shoot Goes Viral Angers Minister
Taking to social media platform ‘X’, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said the doctor who conducted a pre-wedding shoot in the operation theatre of Bharamasagar government Hospital in Chitradurga has been dismissed from service.
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“Government hospital exist for the health care of people and not for personal work. I cannot tolerate such indiscipline from doctors. All contract employees, including doctors and staff performing duties in the health department, should perform their duties as per government service rules,” he said in his post.
“I have already instructed the doctors and staff concerned to be careful so that such abuses do not happen in government hospitals,” he added.
The minister further said everyone should focus on performing the duty knowing that the facilities provided by the government to such medical facilities are for health care of the common people.
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