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AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-18-2007

QUOTE'Ramadoss not signing certificates' 
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
The Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have alleged that the Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is playing with the careers of students of the institute by not signing their degrees. RDA president Kumar Harsh, on Friday, said that though the results were ready more than six months ago, it could not be distributed among the students because of the Minister's delay in putting his signature on them.

"The career of a lot of students and doctors who have studied at AIIMS in the passed two or three years back is in loggerheads just because of the minister's lethargic behaviour. Though the results are ready since the last six months, the minister has not signed it as yet leading to the delay in giving away of degrees," said Harsh.

"If Ramadoss doesn't act on the matter within two days, the RDA will take strict measures," he added.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-26-2007

QUOTEÂ AIIMS doctors to protest amendment bill, back VenugopalÂ 
New Delhi, Aug 26: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) faculty is again up in arms against Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss, protesting a bill that will enable the removal of their director P. Venugopal.

In a recent AIIMS faculty association meeting, over 200 senior doctors decided to petition Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop Ramadoss from passing the AIIMS amendment bill that will bring changes to the AIIMS Act 1956.

'The health minister has already introduced a bill in parliament without even consulting the institute. His intention is clear - to oust our director P. Venugopal,' a senior office bearer of the AIIMS faculty association told a news agency. 

'Instead of targeting a single doctor, he should have included (recommendations of) the M.S. Velliathan Committee report submitted earlier this year, which recommends IIT and IIM type autonomy to the institute.'

The premier AIIMS has been described by Newsweek magazine as a medical 'oasis of the poor' and treats at least 8,000 people every day. Patients from across the country avail treatment here for a nominal fee.

On Aug 17, the health minister, who is also the AIIMS president, had introduced the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research Amendment Bill. The bill has the provision to fix the term of AIIMS director and if passed in parliament, can even evict Venugopal from his current post.

'The director shall hold office for a period of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier,' the bill says.

Doctors ask why the health ministry can't give up the post of AIIMS president - currently held by Ramadoss - and appoint a medical scientist instead.

'Provided that any person holding office as a director immediately before the commencement All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Amendment Act, 2007, shall in so far as his appointment is inconsistent with the provision of the sub section, cease to hold office (sic) ... and shall be entitled to claim compensation not exceeding three months pay and allowances for the premature termination of his office or of any contract of service,' the bill underlines.

Once this bill becomes law, it will also empower the central government to terminate the services of the director even before his term expires for the sake of 'public interest'.

'...The central government shall, if it is of the opinion that it is in the public interest so to do, have the right to terminate the term of office of the director at any time before the expiry of his term by giving him a notice of not less than three months in writing or three months salary and allowance in lieu thereof,' Ramadoss has underlined in the bill.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-28-2007

AIIMS doctors on strike over non-receipt of degreesQUOTEOver 500 resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi went on an indefinite strike on Tuesday evening to protest their not having received postgraduate degrees, despite having passed out two years ago. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has reportedly not signed the degrees.

The strike will affect the out patient services at the hospital from Wednesday.

"The health minister is playing with our career by not signing our degree certificates. We have gone on an indefinite strike from 7 pm onwards," Nitin Kukkar, an orthopaedic resident doctor, told IANS.

"We will provide emergency services at the intensive care unit but the OPD service will be suspended," he said.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-29-2007

QUOTEPolice detain 46 AIIMS docs
Pioneer.com
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
Around 46 AIIMS doctors were detained by the New Delhi district police after they were demanding to meet Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. According to police, the doctors were seeking to meet the Health Minister to seek degrees. "We have detained 33 male and 13 female doctors and later released them," said a senior police officer.

The doctors were detained from the Nirman Bhawan. The degrees of more than 700 students are pending for the last two years as the institute president Anbumani Ramadoss has not put on his signatures.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-29-2007

AIIMS producing docs for UK, US: RamadossQUOTE.........
"The certificates of the degrees were signed by the registrar of AIIMS, Dr Sandeep Agarwal. However, Dr Agarwal's appointment as registrar does not have the approval of the Governing Body, and therefore these documents are illegal and I cannot put my signature on illegal documents," he said
....

However, he was quick to state that: "It is unfortunate that AIIMS has become a manufacturing unit for producing doctors for the US and the UK."


Ramdoss is real Ba***rd. Why he had such a inferiority complex?

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-30-2007

Mudy: It's a turf war and Ramadoss seems to be adamant in asserting his superiority. It's rare to come across such arrogant (and ignorant) bullies playing with careers of hundreds of hard working physicans and the lives of their patients. The whole blame sits squarely in PMs office who desite living couple of miles of AIIMS appears so indifferent to the situation.

In other threads it was hinted that Manmohan Singh's fast asleep at wheel - I think rigor mortis has set in.

Strike ends
QUOTESharma said a senior lawyer was preparing the petition seeking a directive from the court to the government to immediately issue the certificates.

"We will plead before the Supreme Court for an urgent hearing in the matter as time is running out for a number of students who are planning to go abroad for higher studies," Sharma told PTI.

The decision to approach a court was taken at a late night general body meeting of the resident doctors.

With the September 1 deadline for submitting original certificates at foreign universities fast approaching, students claimed that any delay in signing of the certificates by the minister would jeopardise their future.

Ramadoss, the president of AIIMS, had on Wednesday refused to sign the certificate of degrees, a demand put forward by the agitating medical students, on the ground that they had the signature of Registrar Dr Sandeep Aggarwal, whose appointment he contended was illegal.

He refused to take the blame for the delay in the issue of certificates of about 700 pass-outs and held institute director P Venugopal responsible for it.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-30-2007

I put all blame on Moron Singh and COngress party, itâs good, and he had lost his credibility.
He is headless chicken. <!--emo& Big Grin

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Ramdoss or these PMK or DMK or AIDMK varieties just think about small group of their casteist ideology and since they started or allowed to assert power, they had destroyed social fabric of India and will lead Indian to its disintegration. Now we have to see who will speedup disintegration process, Muslims or casteist.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-30-2007

AIIMS issues certificates to doctors QUOTENew Delhi, Aug 30: Taking Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss head-on, the AIIMS administration Thursday began distributing degree certificates minus his signature, hours after resident doctors ended their strike demanding immediate issuance of documents.

"The administration has prepared certificates of 49 passouts who need the documents urgently and started distributing it. It bears the signatures of the institute director and the dean," Resident Doctors Association General secretary Anil Sharma told.

Sharma said prospective candidates have started collecting the certificates and they were communicating with their colleagues who are out of station about the development.

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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />Â the AIIMS President, and controversial registrar Sandeep Aggarwal, whose appointment has been described by the minister as "illegal".

At a staff council meeting chaired by director P Venugopal, a resolution was passed in which it was decided that the dean and the director can sign on the degree. The resolution also said that only two signatures were mandatory on the certificates.

The staff council said it had sought legal opinion in the matter and had got a favourable advice in this regard.

When asked about the development, Ramadoss refused to comment. But, the minister said earlier this morning that certificates without AIIMS president's signatures were "invalid". 


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If this happened in US, it should be clear signal to minister to resign and pack bags.
But Indian ministers are shameless, with no ethics will stay.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 08-31-2007

QUOTEMBBS degrees issued by AIIMS are valid: Delhi HCÂ

New Delhi, Aug 31: The Delhi High Court on Friday said that the MBBS degrees distributed recently by AIIMS administration would be valid despite the fact that they did not contain the requisite signatures of the institution's president and dean.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice MK Sharma and Justice Veena Birbal said, "We do not know whether there is any dispute in AIIMS or not. But these students, who are innocent should not suffer because of all these things."

Putting a stamp of its approval on the degrees, the court said we will address reservations of Health Minister and AIIMS president Anbumani Ramadoss and its dean Academics later during the hearing.

Meanwhile, the certificates issued by the AIIMS could be used by the students, the court added.

The significant observation came during the hearing on the petition filed by some Residents Doctors of the premier institution who had got certain apprehensions about the validity of the degrees which did not contain all requisite signatures of four authorities.

Mukta Gupta, appearing for the dean, Academics for the institution said, "The certificates were not valid ones and we are not going to put our signatures on them."

The Bench took strong note of her statement and said the future of innocent students should be protected.

The court, however, allowed the submissions of AIIMS President and Health Minister Ramadoss and Dean Academics that they would issue separate certificates to the students.

Ramdoss had proved that stupid is written all over him.
Govt should provide him paid residence in Shahdra, Delhi.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 09-03-2007

QUOTESign on degrees within 24 hrs: HC to Ramadoss 
Pioneer.com
PTI | New Delhi
Posted online: September 3, 2007
In a major relief to AIIMS resident doctors and students facing problem in getting admission for higher studies due to delay in procuring degrees, the Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Union Health Minister to put his signature on the certificates within 24 hours.

Justice S Ravinder Bhatt also held that the degrees bearing the signature of the Registrar, whose appointment has been the bone of contention between AIIMS Director P Venugopal and Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, shall be deemed to be valid.

"The Union Health Minister shall affix his signature on 49 certificates/degrees
as well as such other certificates of the students who need these to take admission for higher studies," Justice Bhatt said.

"The Minister shall sign the certificates within 24 hours," he directed.

The Court also directed the AIIMS authority to immediately forward these certificates to the Minister's office so that these could be sent to him by flight as he was in Chennai.


HC should also order Ramdoss to get himself checked in nearest mental hospital for evalutaion and residential programme.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 09-04-2007

QUOTERamadoss signs degree certificates of AIIMS graduatesÂ 
New Delhi, Sept 04: Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has signed the degree certificates of AIIMS graduates following a Delhi High Court directive in this regard.

"The Minister has signed all the degree certificates and it will be distributed to students complying with the court orders," ministry sources said here today.

The Delhi High Court yesterday directed Ramadoss, involved in a turf war with AIIMS Director P Venugopal, to affix his signature on the certificates within 24 hours.

AIIMS resident doctors last week went on a three-day strike on the issue.

Ramadoss had refused to sign the documents saying they bore the signature of the Registrar whose appointment was "illegal".

The court also held that the degrees bearing the signature of the Registrar, whose appointment has been the bone of contention between AIIMS Director P Venugopal and Ramadoss, shall be deemed to be valid.Â 
This is called tight slap to Ramdoss.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 09-09-2007

QUOTERamadoss firm on rural internships 
Pioneer.com
K Venkatramanan | Chennai
Widespread criticism of his proposal for introducing one year's mandatory rural posting for MBBS students prior to the award of their degrees notwithstanding, Union Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss on Saturday stuck to his guns on the measure and said medical students should accept such national service with pride.

"This is an opportunity for students to have a look at the minimal medical services available in villages," said Ambumani. He had convened the press conference to explain the Government's policy which had given rise to protests by medical students in Tamil Nadu. Students say the mandatory rural service prior to the completion of their course would amount to extending their five-and-a-half-year long course by a year more. CM M Karunanidhi had joined the two Communist parties in appealing to Ambumani not to give effect to the proposal. However, the Minister insisted the measure arose out of a proposal of a Parliamentary committee and would be a part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

"Please do not politicise the issue," Ambumani told his critics. On Karunanidhi terming his scheme unacceptable, the Minister said officials might not have properly explained the issue to him. "I will personally explain its features to him," he said. He also noted that doctors entering Government service in Tamil Nadu were asked to do rural duties for three years and sign bonds to that effect.

As per the Government's plan, students would have to spend four months each at a district hospital, a taluk hospital and a primary health centre in the rural areas prior to getting their degrees. They will be paid a stipend of Rs 8,000 during this period.

Asked about criticism that the Government was trying to avoid recruitment and postings in rural areas and trying to make do with the estimated 30,000 medical students completing their MBBS every year, Ambumani said it would not affect recruitment. On the extended duration of the course, he said the rural posting was only for a year, whereas countries like the US, Singapore and Malaysia had three years of national service in the Army. 

Ambumani said medical students should look at it as an opportunity to serve rural India where only 10 per cent of seven lakh allopathic medical practitioners in the country are working. He regretted that while many political parties were demanding better medical services in rural areas, they were, at the same time, opposing the Government's proposal. On the CPM and CPI backing the students, he said MPs belonging to these parties were supporting the Government on the issue. Asked about fears that this would dissuade students from opting for medicine, he said medicine was a noble vocation and it was not about money. A task force on a revision of the MBBS syllabus and cutting short its duration by six months to five years would soon submit its recommendations. 

Why Ramadoss want to apply this only on medical student, why not every student from every vocation should go to rural India?
Can this stupid man enforce same on every college student, engneering or MBA or fine art?
He want to reduce course so that they can go to villages, first give admission on caste basis, then reduce course, quality should go in drain.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 09-18-2007

QUOTEAIIMS panel debunks charges of caste bias 
Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Report submitted to High Court - Pioneer.com
The AIIMS committee formed to enquire into the allegations of caste discrimination leveled by the Thorat Committee, set up by Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, has found the allegations to be baseless. The report submitted to the High Court has rubbished the claims of the Thorat Committee that the anti-quota agitation at AIIMS was supported by the institute administration and that there was segregation of students in the hostels.

According to the findings of the AIIMS committee, the report of the Thorat Committee, constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), was biased and was based on representations from a select group of students under the banner of Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum (PMSF). "The report of the Thorat committee is in total conflict with the records. The terms of reference were not followed and arbitrarily exceeded," said a member of the AIIMS committee on the condition of anonymity.

He said that the allegation of Thorat Committee that AIIMS became the venue for anti-quota agitation as a predetermined measure to attract public attention and put pressure on the Government by crippling healthcare services to the vast number of patients was baseless and unjustified.

"Firstly, Youth for Equality, which as recorded by the Thorat Committee as having spearheaded the agitation, does not exist at AIIMS. Secondly, a review of the institutional processes at that time has revealed conclusively that the AIIMS administration had taken all possible steps to contain the agitation. A total of 16 communications were sent to MoHFW but it did not respond to them," he added.

On the alleged segregation of reserved category students in the hostels at AIIMS, the report has found that there was no substantial allegation to prove that. "The AIIMS Committee has found that SC/ST students are evenly distributed in all hostels. A review of applications requesting for change of hostel rooms, from students over the past two years, has demonstrated that there was not a single instance wherein students had to change on account of any alleged SC/ST discrimination," reads the report.

The case studies of Ajitha Gill, Ajay Kumar Singh and Sukhbir Singh Badhal (Rana), as stated in Thorat Committee Report, were also found to be factually incorrect. The allegations about segregation of reserved category students in sports and cultural events and caste overtones have also been held untrue.

A financial suite has also been filed in the Delhi High Court against the Health Minister, his secretary and three members of the Thorat committee demanding around Rs 5 lakh as compensation to defamatory remarks made by the Thorat committee. The AIIMS director formed AIIMS Committee on May 24 to review the findings, observation and recommendations of the Thorat Committee report and to find ways for implementation of the recommendations.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 09-18-2007

QUOTE(Mudy @ Sep 18 2007, 01:14 AM)AIIMS panel debunks charges of caste bias 

The AIIMS committee formed to enquire into the allegations of caste discrimination leveled by the Thorat Committee, set up by Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, has found the allegations to be baseless. The report submitted to the High Court has rubbished the claims of the Thorat Committee that the anti-quota agitation at AIIMS was supported by the institute administration and that there was segregation of students in the hostels...



I'm sure that Ramadoss is bitterly disappointed at the committee findings. But not to worry - he has several recourses. He can either accuse the committee members of being casteists and thus biased, or find some other fictional 'problem' in the AIIMS Management to gripe about.

This is what happens when very below average performers like Ramadoss, who is well known for his dismal record as a 'doctor', become overly ambitious. They start destroying centers of excellence out of sheer vengence and bitterness, and in the process keep shooting themselves in the foot over and over again. The hilarity is that Ramadoss pretends it doesn't hurt, and insists on walking everywhere with a limp.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 11-02-2007

QUOTEAnother effort to get rid of AIIMS Director 
Akhilesh Suman | New Delhi
Centre plans ordinance aimed to oust Venugopal
The Centre may come out with an ordinance on Friday to remove Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Dr P Venugopal from his post.

The proposal to this effect will be taken up by the Union Cabinet meeting on Friday when it considers promulgation of an ordinance to amend AIIMS Act, 1956.

According to sources, the amendment would pave the way for Venugopal's immediate ouster by changing service rules of the AIIMS Director. 

The amendment seeks Cabinet approval to fix a five-year term for the AIIMS Director or 65 years of age, whichever is earlier.

Dr Venugopal is yet to complete his five-year term, but he has already crossed the age of 65 years. If the ordinance is approved and signed by President Pratibha Patil, Venugopal would have to put in his papers.

In an attempt to show the decision was not specifically targeted at Venugopal, the am-endment would also cover Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (Chandigarh) Act, 1965.

Union Health Minister A Ramadoss has been fighting a long battle to remove Venugopal. Last year, he had tried to sack Venugopal through a majority decision of the institute's governing council.

The decision was later stayed by the Delhi High Court. The Government sources said that after the defeat in the court, the Health Minister was lobbying hard in the Government for removal of the Director. 

However, Prime Minister Mamohan Singh was not in favour of the removal of the famous Director, and the proposed ordinance could not be taken up for consideration in the last several Cabinet meetings.Â

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 11-23-2007

QUOTEVenu's ouster made easy 
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
LS clears Bill fixing tenure for AIIMS Director
Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss finally paved the way for the ouster of AIIMS director P Venugopal on Thursday as the Lok Sabha passed an amendment Bill fixing the term of directors of AIIMS and Chandigarh's Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).Â

The Lok Sabha witnessed angry exchanges between the Opposition and the ruling coalition members on the amendment Bill. Leading the attack from the front was BJP member Maneka Gandhi who accused the Health Minister of using the House for settling personal scores.

The AIIMS and the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill 2007 fixes the term of AIIMS director and clearly says that "the director shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters his office or until he attains the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier."

Venugopal, who turned 65 on July 6 this year, was appointed as director for a term of six years in 2003. His term ends in 2009. However, with the amendment, Ramadoss, who has had frequent and open feuds with Venugopal, has ensured that the director has an early exit.

Speaking on the issue in Parliament, Maneka said: "The Health Minister is in a hurry. I had been watching the Minister trying to make forays into AIIMS through direct action or by Bills in Parliament. Just to oust the director, he has already tried to push an Ordinance twice between the monsoon session and the current session."
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Here again evil Ramadoss, this idiot just want to loot AIIMS and place all his relatives in AIIMS.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 11-23-2007

QUOTE(Mudy @ Nov 23 2007, 02:16 AM)Here again evil Ramadoss, this idiot just want to loot AIIMS and place all his relatives in AIIMS.
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Ramdoss is known for his vendetta politics. He has been gunning for Dr. Venugopal with vengence. The third-rate Ramadoss, who wouldn't have even qualified to be a barber under normal circumstances and in a society built on meritocracy and excellence, is fully aware, as are others, of his limitations as a 'doctor' and professional.

I'm also willing to bet that with the ousting of Dr. Venugopal, this all-air-and-no substance Ramdoss will use the opportunity to quickly place his kith and kin, and friends, throughout the AIIMs. Within a year from now, one will find a sea of 'dravida' faces , with white coats and scissors in hands, walking the corridors of AIIMs, looking for people/objects to snipe at. The era of AIIMs excellence is over. AIIMs will now provide opportunity for those hair-cutters from TN who failed the barber school to try their hand at surgery. Its time that people in Delhi and elsewhere avoid AIIMs and get sick somewhere else, unless, of course, one really fancies a hair-cut and is not too fussy about the outcome.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 11-23-2007

Delhiwallas are very good in putting "Dravida face" in right place. There was a time people even refused to rent house to them and they can make life really miserable, yes, inside capital. Don't forget majority of patients comes from Harayana, and they don't seek courts to solve problems. <!--emo& Big Grin

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According to source, Ramadoss plans is to steal equipments for his hospital in south and use it for tourism medicine for his family.
He is a third rated crook elected by TN citizens and imposed on rest of India.
So, people of TN, Please don't send people like Ramadoss to Parliamant, just keep him in your backyard.

AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 12-01-2007

<img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /> QUOTEShotgun Murugan Ramadoss sacks Venugopal <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' />
Pioneer.com
Durgesh Nandan Jha/ PNS | New Delhi
...appoints Dogra acting AIIMS Director
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday removed AIIMS Director P Venugopal within hours after President Pratibha Patil signed the controversial AIIMS Amendment Bill. TD Dogra (Head of the Forensic Sciences and Toxicology department) has been asked to take over as acting Director in place of Venugopal.Â Â

In a dramatic development on Friday evening, the Government notified the AIIMS and Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (Amendment) Act 2007 as soon as the President gave her assent to the controversial Bill.

In its undue hurry, the Government even bypassed the Institute Body meeting, which is mandatory under the AIIMS Act 1956.

The controversial Bill disqualifying Venugopal to continue as AIIMS Director got presidential assent on Friday giving Supreme Court the necessary ground to hear two petitions challenging the validity of the said law on Monday.

With time being a constraint for Venugopal and Ramadoss, high drama prevailed in Supreme Court as Venugopal made an urgent mention of his petition challenging the validity of the AIIMS and Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (Amendment) Act 2007.

The proposed amendment fixes the age of AIIMS Director at 65 years, targeting Venugopal, who has surpassed this age.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohtagi appearing for the eminent cardiac surgeon pleaded before the Bench headed by the Chief Justice to urgently hear the matter. The situation resulted after a Bench headed by Justice GP Mathur removed the matter listed for mentioning in his court.

Providing reason for urgency, Rohtagi said, "In view of the dispute between the Health Minister and AIIMS Director, the AIIMS Act is being amended to suggest the Director will cease to stay the moment the Bill is signed."

Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan without going into the merits of the case allowed the petition to be listed on the next working day. On further request, the court allowed to post the matter in the regular hearing list.

Venugopal's term as Director AIIMS ends on July 3, 2008 as his appointment letter gives him a full five-year term beginning in July 2003. But the trouble for the veteran doctor began when Ramadoss, in the capacity as President AIIMS Institute Body, passed a resolution to remove him. The Delhi High Court stayed the order of his removal and allowed him a permanent term.

The order of the Delhi High Court passed on March 29, 2007 is currently under challenge in the Supreme Court, which has refused to lift the stay granted by the high court.

Citing this in his defence, Venugopal, in his fresh petition, has challenged the validity of the amended Act, which amounts to overreaching a judicial decision.

By fixing an upper age limit for the Director, the quality of AIIMS would be compromised since the original Act intends candidates/teachers from other reputed institutes to join after their superannuation, he contended.

In Venugopal's support, the Faculty Association of AIIMS (FAAIIMS) has filed another petition supporting the Director's cause and alleging increased interference by the Minister, contrary to the autonomous constitution of AIIMS.

The FAAIIMS petition also to be heard on Monday has further sought implementation of the Valiathan Committee Report tabled in October 2006 which categorically recommended an apolitical Institute Body with no role whatsoever to the Health Minister and Health Secretary in it.

According to sources, Venugopal is the first on the block in Ramadoss's scheme of things. The Minister is all set to target the newly-appointed acting Director Dogra and Dr AK Bisoi (senior cardiologist) in the Institute Body meeting to be held on December 7. The agenda of the Institute Body meeting includes the status of disciplinary actions taken against Dogra who was suspended for overruling the orders of the institute president -- Ramadoss and Bisoi who was suspended after being found guilty of medical negligence by a committee formed by him. Both later took stay from the High Court.

"The agenda of the Institute Body meeting includes old issues. This comprises the suspension orders of Dogra and Bisoi," confirmed DS Murthy, Officer on Special Duty, Ramadoss. According to sources, the Minister and Institute Body members might grill him on the suspension orders. Also, Dogra's functioning, as the Dean of Examination of AIIMS would be challenged and some other faculty member would be given the job. ."The Minister would also make sure that the reinstatement orders of the Registrar VP Gupta is followed at the earliest possible. Venugopal had appointed AIIMS faculty member, Sandeep Agarwal, as the Acting Registrar of the institute," said the source. The functioning of Dogra as the Dean of Examination and Agarwal as the Registrar of the institute was the main reason behind Ramadoss' dilly-dallying in the issue of signing of degree certificates. The agenda of the meeting -- Governing Body as well as Institute Body meeting -- also includes discussion on the report submitted by the SK Thorat Committee and delegation of powers to the recently-appointed Deputy Director, Sailesh Yadav.

Meanwhile, the decision of AIIMS doctors to run the Out Patient Department (OPD) services for longer hours on Friday came as a boon for the patients. Long queues of patients were seen at various OPD counters till late in the evening. Apart from working till 8 pm -- eight hours extra -- the doctors also took out a candlelight march at the institute to protest against AIIMS Amendment Bill 2007. The OPDs would run till late on Saturday.

"I have come to AIIMS to show my child in the emergency ward. But when I came to know that the OPDs were running, I directly went to the ENT section and got him treated within hours. I wish the doctors can make the same kind of arrangement even under normal circumstances," said Pradeep Kumar Yadav, whose four-year-old son was suffering from acute pain in ears. Like Yadav, there were many patients happy to see the changed schedule, though temporary. The doctors working in emergency block said that the move helped them too. "Usually, we used to have heavy workload, especially on Fridays. Sometimes, even not-so-serious patients had to be treated, as there were two holidays ahead. People do not want to wait till Monday. The OPD services till late ensured that such patients get treatment at the OPDs itself," said Nitin Kumar, a resident doctor. Senior faculty members of the institute were also seeing patients.

At around 8 pm, some the resident doctors as well as faculty members of the institute also took out candlelight march as a mark of protest. "The extra work and candlelight march is to show our dissent against the Bill. Though the Bill has been signed by the President, we are hoping that we would get relief from the Supreme Court that would be hearing the matter on Monday," said Dr Kumar Harsh, President Resident Doctors' Association (RDA).Â


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AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians - Guest - 12-04-2007

We are with Dr Venugopal, says Supreme Court
QUOTEThe Bench which was inclined towards the arguments of Venugopal, however, said there was âdifficultyâ in staying the operation of the law passed by Parliament.

"Was there any necessity of bringing the amendment at this stage," the court asked when the Centre justified its act by saying Venugopal was on contractual appointment and it was addressing the concern of Delhi High Court which wanted that the ambiguity in the appointment be removed by way of regulation or a statute.

The Bench's annoyance over the turn of the events was further evident at the fag end of an hour-long hearing when it said "on the facts of the case we are with Venugopal."