Report sought on charge that KIMS doctors are skipping work

Deputy Commissioner of Dharwad Nitesh Patil has sought an in depth report from KIMS Director Ramalinga Antaratani on the problem of some doctors of Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) being accused of skipping work in hospital and continuing to personal hospitals to deal with sufferers. This follows a sting operation by a tv information channel.

Meanwhile, KIMS Doctors Association (KDA) has submitted a memorandum to the KIMS Director urging him to not take any motion primarily based on the sting operation, which, they mentioned, was carried out with a malice intent to defaming KIMS doctors who’ve been working even past shifts within the wake of the pandemic.

In the sting operation carried out by the tv channel, some doctors are seen registering their attendance by biometric machine and subsequently, leaving the hospital premises both to go dwelling or attend to work in personal hospitals.

During Health Minister K. Sudhakar’s go to to Hubballi and the following evaluate assembly, elected representatives had dropped at his discover that whereas many of the doctors and para medical employees at KIMS Hospital had been working sincerely, some had been skipping work and had continued to take action with impunity.

During the assembly, that they had additionally demanded dismissal of such doctors who had been negligent in direction of their duties regardless of drawing large salaries.

Amid all these developments, the KIMS Director [Dr. Ramalingappa Antaratani] has mentioned that notices had been being issued to 11 doctors in opposition to whom allegations of skipping work had been made.