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Suspension of Salem hospital staff revoked

By Our Special Correspondent

SALEM Nov. 15. The suspension of two doctors and 11 other employees of the Salem Government Mohan Kumarmangalam Medical College Hospital was revoked on Friday. All of them were directed to report for duty immediately, M.Ganapathy, Dean, said today.

Speaking to presspersons here, Dr. Ganapathy said the three-member fact-finding team, which visited the hospital on Thursday, questioned the doctors, other employees and the kin of the deceased (Solaiammal and Prema).

The team comprising the Deputy Director of Medical Education, Anil Kumar, the Deputy Director of Medical Education (Administration), Arunachalam, and the Dean In-charge of the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, Ramkumar Raghupathi, left for Chennai the same night and handed over the enquiry report to the Government through the Director of Medical Education.

Based on the report, the Government would initiate action, he said.

The Dean said the employees would be reinducted in the same position.

Depending upon administrative convenience, they would be relocated.

He admitted that the two incidents brought to the fore certain shortcomings in the hospital, and efforts were being made to remedy the situation.

The State president of the Tamil Nadu Government Doctors' Association, K.Prakasam, told The Hindu that the association thanked the Government for revoking the suspension.

He said that the association was not against taking action against erring doctors, but opposed "suspension without enquiry''.

The association was of the view that "the suspension should have followed the enquiry and not preceded it.''

He suggested that social workers be appointed in the hospital to render assistance and to guide them.

At present, brokers loitering the hospital corridors were exploiting the ignorance of patients, he said.

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