KATHMANDU, JUN 26 -
Doctors at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) put off their indefinite shutdown of the hospital beginning Monday, after Office of the Vice-Chancellor assigned the responsibility of dean to Acting Assistant Dean Dr Ratendra Shrestha till July 4.
Close on the heels of the decision to shut down the hospital, a high-level meeting of TU officials including the VC and TUTH representatives on Sunday decided to give current Dean Dr Arun Sayami a ‘marching order’ and appoint a senior member of the institution as his successor by July 4.
The doctors at the hospital were up in arms for the past eight months demanding vacant posts of dean, two assistant deans, campus chief and assistant campus chief be filled from among senior and experienced
staff members of TUTH. After a series of protests at the hospital and at the VC office went unheeded, Dr Govinda KC, senior orthopedic doctor at the hospital, had decided to sit in an infinite hunger strike from May 14. However, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on the same day asked the agitating doctors to withdraw their protests, promising to fulfil their demands. A three-member committee was formed to recommend the seniormost and experienced official for the post of dean by June second week. However, the panel failed to meet the deadline and its term was not extended then. But a meeting on Sunday extended the panel’s term for the next 10 days, mandating it to submit names of three senior and experienced persons for the post of dean.
Dr Dinesh Pokhrel, the president of TU Teachers’ Association, Maharajgunj unit, said if the government failed to keep its word, they would resume the protest.
Two years ago, the hospital was shut for 19 days after office bearers at the Institute of Medicine (IoM) found Dr Arun Sayami, then dean, involved in irregularities during the entrance examinations for Post Graduate studies. Although a probe committee found Sayami and his team guilty of irregularities, none of them were booked due to, what many say, their political clout.
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com/2012/06/26/capital/panel-to-suggest-names-for-iom-dean-protest-put-off/356169/
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