State’s Medical Colleges Witness Unauthorized Absence of Doctors

Healthcare at Stake

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: At a time when Dispur is setting up more medical colleges in the State to overcome shortage of doctors, the unauthorized absence of several doctors in the existing six medical colleges and hospitals has adversely affected healthcare delivery system.

The erring doctors — majority of whom are holding the posts of registrar and assistant professors – have been remaining absent from their duties for a long time. Principals of six medical colleges and hospitals have already sent lists of such doctors to the State Health department for necessary actions.

The Gauhati Medical College and Hospital is witnessing unauthorized absence of four doctors from Anesthesiology department, two doctors each from Medicine, TB & Chest, Neurology, Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and one doctor each from Oncology and Pediatrics.

Five doctors from Surgery department, two doctors each from Medicine department, Forensic Medicine, Nephrology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, one doctor each from Endocrinology, TB and Chest, Pediatrics, Pediatrics Surgery, Orthopedics, ENT and CTVS are remaining absent from their duties at Assam Medical College and Hospital, Dibrugarh without any official intimation to the appropriate authorities.

Two doctors each from Surgery department, Orthopedics and Radiology and one each from Community Medicine, Pediatric, Psychiatry and Anesthesiology departments have not been attending their duties for a long time at Silchar Medical College and Hospital.

More or less similar is the situation at the newly set up Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College and Hospital at Barpeta, Tezpur Medical College and Hospital and Jorhat Medical College and Hospital.

Sources said the Health department has taken a serious note on unauthorized absence of doctors at six medical colleges.

“The State Government has already sent reminders to the erring doctors to immediately resume duties. If doctors continue to remain absent, the government will have no other option but to sack them. A few doctors at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital have submitted resignation after remaining absent from their duties for a long time,” the source said.

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