Paramedical staff accuse doc of misconduct

Nikhila Pant Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, May 23

Accusing a doctor of the hospital of misbehaving with them, members of the Paramedical Health Employees Association staged a protest outside Children and Women Hospital here today. Ggagandeep Singh, district president of the association, led the protest.

Elaborating on their protest, Gagandeep Singh, general secretary of the association Jagdeep Singh and others stated that a complaint against Dr Ravi Kant for misbehaving with staff nurse Paramjit Kaur was registered with the SMO of Children and Women Hospital on May 13 but no action had been taken against the doctor so far. They also said several other nurses had complained that the same doctor misbehaved with them as well.

“When SMO Dr Satish Goyal was approached to constitute a committee to address the issues being faced by the female employees, the doctor didn’t take any step in that direction. We will now ask the district administration to intervene and address our issues since the management of the hospital has not dealing with our problems,” they added.

Raising slogans against the accused doctor and the SMO, the protesters also took out a protest march on the premises of the hospital. They concluded their march by submitting a memorandum of their demands to the Civil Surgeon. The protesters stated that the Civil Surgeon had assured them that he would look into the matter.

Meanwhile, refuting the charges levelled against him, Dr Ravi Kant stated that on May 13, he had stopped staff nurse Paramjit Kaur from taking a newborn child to the OPD and had explained the nursing protocol following which the nurse apparently got miffed with him.

“The nurse got angry and even argued with me. I had complained about the incident to the SMO on the same evening. I have received a few complaints about the nurses and Class IV employees owing to which there is resentment among them against me,” he added.

SMO Dr Satish Goyal stated that the staff nurse had not met him with the complaint, rather the association members had approached him complaining against the doctor.

He further added that during the meeting too, he had told the association members that he had brought the entire matter to the notice of the Civil Surgeon.

He also added that the association members didn’t agree to his offer for conducting an inquiry into the matter and demanded that the same be done by the Civil Surgeon only.