Medical teachers transferred out

They were radiology professor Dr M K Vadil, anatomy professor Dr Malini Mehta, gynaecology professor Dr Veena Desai, orthopaedics professor Dr Babubhai Patel, physiology professor Dr Ravi Saxena, paediatrics professor Dr Indiraben Parmar and medicine professor Dr B D Parmar; associate professor psychiatry Dr Samani and associate professor Skin and VD Dr Pradeep Umrigar; and two assistant professors K Basu anatomy and Dr S Mistri Pharmocology.

They were relieved with immediate effect on Monday.

The move, however, has not gone down well with the Junior Doctors8217; Association. The presidents of the Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat chapters were constantly in touch with each other on Tuesday to stall the transfers.The members of Surat JDA held a meeting in the wake of the transfers. Its chief Pritu Dhalaria said JDA associations had been told by health department officials that the transferred teachers would be brought back soon.

Maintaining that the junior doctors had accepted the explanation, he said there was any plan to call a strike on the issue.

A senior administrative officer said such transfers were being routinely done to bail out new medical colleges. It was part of the government policy of ad hoc transfers. Generally, all such transferred teachers were posted back once the purpose was served, he admitted.