12-21-2007, 10:42 AM
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21 Dec 2007, 0117 hrs IST,Kounteya Sinha,TNN
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NEW DELHI: Doctors who once worked with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences but are presently serving private clinics and hospitals after taking voluntary retirement may be in for a rude shock.
The Union Health Ministry may soon bar them from using the institute's name on their clinic boards or letters heads. The ministry believes that such advertisements actually result in "misuse of the institute's good name".
The proposal was brought up at the Institute Body meeting of AIIMS on Thursday by some members. Health secretary Naresh Dayal said, "We don't have a problem with doctors who have retired from AIIMS after completing their tenure and are now practising privately.
<b>But we are examining legally, whether we should allow doctors who have taken voluntary retirement to use their tenure at AIIMS as an advertising tool. In some countries, doctors have to take permission from institutes before doing so." </b>
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Ramadoss had gone crazy.
21 Dec 2007, 0117 hrs IST,Kounteya Sinha,TNN
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NEW DELHI: Doctors who once worked with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences but are presently serving private clinics and hospitals after taking voluntary retirement may be in for a rude shock.
The Union Health Ministry may soon bar them from using the institute's name on their clinic boards or letters heads. The ministry believes that such advertisements actually result in "misuse of the institute's good name".
The proposal was brought up at the Institute Body meeting of AIIMS on Thursday by some members. Health secretary Naresh Dayal said, "We don't have a problem with doctors who have retired from AIIMS after completing their tenure and are now practising privately.
<b>But we are examining legally, whether we should allow doctors who have taken voluntary retirement to use their tenure at AIIMS as an advertising tool. In some countries, doctors have to take permission from institutes before doing so." </b>
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Ramadoss had gone crazy.