32 Telangana Govt doctors served show cause notices for absenteeism
Telangana DME Acts Against Faculty Members Absent for Over a Year
Hyderabad: Thirty-two doctors from Telangana government medical colleges are facing disciplinary action after the Director of Medical Education (DME) issued show-cause notices for being absent from duty for over a year while simultaneously working at other institutions.
The notice, dated November 7, stated that such prolonged unauthorised absence constitutes a violation of service rules and may be treated as a deemed resignation from government service.
According to the notice, reports submitted by principals and superintendents of teaching hospitals revealed that several assistant professors, tutors, and senior faculty across departments such as anaesthesia, general medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, cardiology, urology, and neurosurgery had disengaged themselves from government duty while continuing employment elsewhere.
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“The absence of doctors from high-dependency departments has caused inconvenience to the hospital administration, and people have been deprived of the medical care in a government hospital/college,” the notice said, reports the Hindu.
Invoking Fundamental Rule 18 and the Telangana Leave Rules of 1933, the DME has provisionally decided to terminate the services of these doctors from the date of their unauthorised absence. Before final orders are issued, the faculty have been directed to appear in person and submit an explanation within 15 days of receiving the notice. Failure to do so will be treated as an admission of no defence.
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