KGMU committee begins probe

LUCKNOW: A four-member committee, set up by the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) administration, began its probe into the allegation of harassment against a resident doctor on Monday.

The panel, which comprised Prof Sunita Tiwari, Dr Anoop Verma, Dr BK Ojha and Dr Sujata Dev, would primarily inquire whether the doctor is repeated offender while being on duty. It would also question staff of the radio therapy department, where the resident doctor was posted, to verify whether the accused doctor did such an act for the first time or he did in the past too.

Last Tuesday, a female attendant had filed a complaint to the KGMU authorities that a resident doctor behaved indecently with her when she went to give some medicines to her father admitted in a ward. “I was talking to a nurse regarding giving some medicine to my father to get relief from pain. Suddenly, a ward boy came in between and then a doctor, who were drunk. The doctor behaved indecently with me,” the girl alleged in her complaint.

Earlier, the KGMU administration, based upon the complaint, also conducted primary inquiry and found the ward boy guilty and he was immediately terminated from the hospital. However, the National Medicos Organisation (NMO), an organisation of doctors, alleged that the KGMU administration was protecting the resident doctor and it demanded his termination, charging him of being a regular offender. “It is not for the first time when a plaint has been filed against this doctor. In August 2017, he also tried to molest wife of a doctor in hostel. However, the matter was hushed up by the authorities,” alleged Bhupendra Singh, NMO secretary.