CSMMU issues notice to 11 docs

Speaking to The Indian Express,Vice-Chancellor Saroj Chooramani Gopal said that the notice does not mean that the university has given a clean chit to other doctors. The university will continue to monitor all doctors and if found guilty,they will be punished in an appropriate manner,she added.

“A two-member committee has been formed to look into the matter and all old evidence will be treated as proof in this regard,” Singh added.

According to sources,during the sting operation conducted by the university a few months ago,proxy patients were sent to the alleged private clinics of these doctors. The notice was served on the basis of affidavits submitted by the proxy patients.

There have also been complaints by patients’ attendants that doctors forcibly transfer serious patients from the university to their private clinics. When the patients run out of money,they are returned to the CSMMU.

Among the 11 doctors served notice,one has been booked for giving private tuitions to medical students,said a source.

Senior officials of the university administration maintain that even private tuition amounts to private practice.

Those who have been sent notice mainly belong to the departments of pharmacology,pulmonary medicine,ophthalmology and orthopedics.