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Amarnath Tewary | Patna
The disparaging remark by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss against a doctor from Bihar has snowballed into a major controversy with enraged medicos and doctors associated with Bihar unit of the Indian Medical Association asking the Medical Council of India and the central IMA to bar the Minister from attending any meeting of their bodies and appealed to their fraternity to boycott any function addressed by the Minister.Â
The Bihar chapter of the IMA on Tuesday had strongly protested Ramadoss' remark made at a function in Delhi recently that a doctor from Bihar was responsible for derecognition of Indian medical degrees by Britain. The protesting doctors had come out in Patna streets and burnt effigies of the Minister.
<b>"We have appealed to our central body and the Medical Council to restrict Ramadoss from attending any meeting organised by them and also not attend any function addressed by him," </b>said Ajay Kumar, president of the IMA on Wednesday.
"We would also request the Prime Minister to expel the Minister from his Cabinet for his parochial remark," said secretary of the Bihar chapter of IMA Shahajanand Singh. He also said that they would write to Central Ministers and MPs coming from Bihar for exerting pressure on UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to dismiss him from the Cabinet.
In a cautious reaction, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told media that though he was not aware of what the Minister had said, he knew that there were several good doctors from the State in Britain who are doing extremely well. "I, myself know several of them who are doing well in the medical profession in Britain," said Nitish Kumar.
Meanwhile, the fuming Bihar doctors have said that the Minister has tarnished the image of whole State, Bihar with his remark. "Ramadoss statement clearly shows his bias against the State and the doctors coming from it. It seems he suffers from some regional and racial prejudices," charged Sanjay Kumar Suman of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS).
IMA Bihar unit president Basant Singh also flayed Ramadoss. "I fail to understand why the Minister made such a degrading statement against a Bihar doctor at a time when the doctors from the State are doing exceptionally well outside the country and in Britain", said he.
At a high-powered meeting of the medicos Basant Singh along with almost all the known and famous doctors of Patna condemned Ramadoss' remarks and demanded either unconditional apology or dismissal from the union cabinet.
Meanwhile, the general secretary of the Bihar State Medical Teachers Association, Rajiv Ranjan Prasad has asked the Union Health minister what proof he has to declare that the said doctor was from Bihar.<b> "The case Ramadoss referred at the doctors meeting in New Delhi recently was of about 40 years ago, I would like to ask him what proof he has got to say that the said doctor was from Bihar?" </b>asked RR Prasad.
Prasad also said that by making such statement Ramadoss has vilified the image of doctors of Bihar which could not be tolerated at any cost.
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Pioneer.com
Amarnath Tewary | Patna
The disparaging remark by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss against a doctor from Bihar has snowballed into a major controversy with enraged medicos and doctors associated with Bihar unit of the Indian Medical Association asking the Medical Council of India and the central IMA to bar the Minister from attending any meeting of their bodies and appealed to their fraternity to boycott any function addressed by the Minister.Â
The Bihar chapter of the IMA on Tuesday had strongly protested Ramadoss' remark made at a function in Delhi recently that a doctor from Bihar was responsible for derecognition of Indian medical degrees by Britain. The protesting doctors had come out in Patna streets and burnt effigies of the Minister.
<b>"We have appealed to our central body and the Medical Council to restrict Ramadoss from attending any meeting organised by them and also not attend any function addressed by him," </b>said Ajay Kumar, president of the IMA on Wednesday.
"We would also request the Prime Minister to expel the Minister from his Cabinet for his parochial remark," said secretary of the Bihar chapter of IMA Shahajanand Singh. He also said that they would write to Central Ministers and MPs coming from Bihar for exerting pressure on UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to dismiss him from the Cabinet.
In a cautious reaction, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told media that though he was not aware of what the Minister had said, he knew that there were several good doctors from the State in Britain who are doing extremely well. "I, myself know several of them who are doing well in the medical profession in Britain," said Nitish Kumar.
Meanwhile, the fuming Bihar doctors have said that the Minister has tarnished the image of whole State, Bihar with his remark. "Ramadoss statement clearly shows his bias against the State and the doctors coming from it. It seems he suffers from some regional and racial prejudices," charged Sanjay Kumar Suman of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS).
IMA Bihar unit president Basant Singh also flayed Ramadoss. "I fail to understand why the Minister made such a degrading statement against a Bihar doctor at a time when the doctors from the State are doing exceptionally well outside the country and in Britain", said he.
At a high-powered meeting of the medicos Basant Singh along with almost all the known and famous doctors of Patna condemned Ramadoss' remarks and demanded either unconditional apology or dismissal from the union cabinet.
Meanwhile, the general secretary of the Bihar State Medical Teachers Association, Rajiv Ranjan Prasad has asked the Union Health minister what proof he has to declare that the said doctor was from Bihar.<b> "The case Ramadoss referred at the doctors meeting in New Delhi recently was of about 40 years ago, I would like to ask him what proof he has got to say that the said doctor was from Bihar?" </b>asked RR Prasad.
Prasad also said that by making such statement Ramadoss has vilified the image of doctors of Bihar which could not be tolerated at any cost.
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