Resident docs protest against HoD

 Resident docs protest against HoD

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:

02.02.2021

In a protest move, resident doctors at ENT department of BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital treated patients outside the Out Patient Department (OPD) on Saturday.

The resident doctors put up posters and banners a bout the ‘ harassment’ meted out to them by the head of the department for ENT, Dr Ila Upadhyay.

“Despite complaints to the college authorities, Dr Upadhyay continued to mentally torment us on Friday. As a result, we have decided to stage a protest while continuing to treat patients outside the ENT OPD,” said a resident doctor in the ENT department.

In a letter to the faculty dean, Gujarat University, the Junior Doctors’ Association recently alleged that Dr Upadhyay asked one of her students, resident doctor Saurabh Banerjee to gift her a micro-meter drill set. The association demanded immediate action against the faculty failing which they had threatened to stage a protest.

In a separate letter to the college a uthorities, signed by ENT department students, they have written about alleged harassment in the department under the HoD.