AIIMS and atrocities by Indian politicians

08-17-2006, 04:11 PM

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Venugopal to continue as AIIMS Director
Source: NDTV.

New Delhi, August 17: AIIMS director P Venugopal will continue as director of India's most prestigious medical institute, at least for now.

Venugopal has been on a collision course with Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. Venugopal had challenged his sacking in court and the court will now hear the matter on November 7.

He will continue as director till then. He was asked to vacate his seat over allegations that he had violated the moral code of conduct during the anti-quota strikes.

This decision was taken during an AIIMS governing body meet in early July. The Delhi High court on July 7 stayed the recommendation to sack the AIIMS Director.

Ramadoss and all other parties were given time until now to answer the court's questions.

08-22-2006, 12:36 AM

Quota bill: Docs to launch agitation from TuesdayQUOTETerming as "unfortunate" the Centre's decision to introduce a bill in Parliament providing for reservation in anti-quota medicos on Monday night said they would launch an agitation on Tuesday to mark their protest.

The medicos would gather at Jantar Mantar to protest the Union Cabinet decision to introduce a bill in the current session of Parliament providing for reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward castes in government-aided elite educational institutions.

"We will gather in huge numbers at Jantar Mantar to protest the government decision," Dr Arnab Pal of the AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association said.
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08-25-2006, 02:09 AM

QUOTEHC warns Ramadoss he may be stripped off AIIMS post 
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Staff Reporter | New Delhi
In yet another embarrassment for the Union Government in the ongoing AIIMS controversy, the Delhi High Court on Thursday warned that it would restrain Union Health Minister A Ramadoss from acting as president of the AIIMS governing body if the Centre failed to file a reply on his suitability for the post.

Justice P Anil Kumar granted two weeks time to the Union Government to file a reply on the issue and posted the matter for further hearing to September 27.

The Judge gave the ultimatum after the Centre and AIIMS failed to file their replies on a petition challenging continuance of the Health Minister and the Union Health Secretary in the governing body. The court had on July 1 sought replies within four weeks on the petition filed by Dr S Kale and nine others alleging that the two had been inducted into the body illegally in violation of the amended AIIMS Act, 2000.

Counsel Sugriva Dubey appearing for the petitioners submitted that a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in 1996 strongly recommended that the Union Health Minister and Health Secretary should not be members of the governing body to protect the institute's autonomy.

In pursuance of the JPC's recommendation, the AIIMS Act was amended in 2000 to preclude the two functionaries from being governing body members. However, the petition alleged that in violation of the rules, the two functionaries were inducted into the governing body. Justice Anil Kumar was irked when the Centre despite the court's earlier order failed to reply within four weeks.

"If you don't file your replies within two weeks, we will restrain the minister and the secretary from attending the governing body meetings," Justice Kumar firmly told the counsel representing the Union Health Ministry and the AIIMS.

08-30-2006, 12:32 AM

QUOTERamadoss trips over law again, loses sack raceÂ 
Yoga Rangatia | New Delhi
MCI PG chief reinstated
Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' penchant for sacking senior officials has earned him a rap from the judiciary for the third time in a row. In a strongly worded statement, the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has quashed the Ministry's notification to remove Medical Council of India's post-graduate committee chairman Ved Prakash Mishra.

The order comes after Delhi High Court in an interim order stayed Dr Ramadoss' decision to sack All India Institute of Medical Sciences Director P Venugopal.

Earlier this year, the same court stayed his decision to sack Central Committee of Homoeopathy Chairman SPS Bakshi.

The Health Minister's highhandedness in appointing and removing senior officials has come under sharp criticism after the latest judgement.

In January this year, the Health Ministry issued a notification to remove Dr Mishra as the chairman of the MCI's PG committee, citing that he had taken up an assignment as vice-chancellor of Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, a deemed university in Wardha.

The Ministry argued that since he ceases to be faculty of Nagpur University, his nomination to the MCI committee also stands terminated. Continuing this argument, the Ministry said his term as chairman also stood terminated when the Government withdraws his nomination to the Council. Dr Mishra had proceeded on leave to take up his new assignment.

Last week, the Bench reminded the Minister that Central Government did not have jurisdiction to decide the membership of university authorities. In a 60-page order, the Bench said the notification was bad in law, misconceived, arbitrary and unjust.

The Government cannot nominate and sack experts at its own will. It also said that experts are nominated to the MCI committee for a fixed term. Thereafter the committee elected Dr Mishra its chairman.

Dr Ramadoss' running feud with MCI is an open secret. He has even introduced a Bill in Parliament to usurp the powers of the Council. The draft Bill empowers the Health Ministry to sack the president, vice-president and members of the Council.

The Delhi High Court also snubbed the Minister by staying his controversial decision to sack AIIMS director. What is less well known is how the Minister unceremoniously removed Central Council of Homoeopathy President SPS Bakshi. In an interim order in June 2006, the High Court stayed the Health Minister's decision and re-instated Dr Bakshi. Like MCI, the Council plays a role in registration of courses in Homoeopathy studies.

Whether it is MCI, AIIMS or Homoeopathy Council, there is a pattern to the Health Minister's moves to control every lever of decision-making and remove officials not amiable to his diktats.

09-06-2006, 12:46 AM

QUOTEOoPs! Ramadoss plea may not stand legal test 
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Abraham Thomas | New Delhi
The main thrust of Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' defence before the Election Commission on a disqualification petition for holding an office of profit as president of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) governing body may not stand the legal test.

In his reply to the Election Commission, Ramadoss asserted that a Member of Parliament is exempted from disqualification if he is a member or Chairman of a University.

Ramadoss argued that this clause, contained in Section 3(f) of Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959, applied to his being the president of the premier institute. Since AIIMS is an institute entitled to grant medical degrees under a Central Act, he argued that, it (AIIMS) could be described as a University under the University Grants Commission Act.

But this defence may not hold any water in the light of an apex decision, which has held that AIIMS cannot be called a university under the UGC Act.

The confusion over whether AIIMS could be called a university was raised before the Supreme Court in 1996. The challenge was laid to a specific provision, Section 3(d) to be specific, of The Dentist Act, 1948 that refused to recognise the university status of AIIMS. Citing this ground the Dental Council of India (DCI) terminated the membership of one Hari Prakash, who was a nominee of AIIMS to the council. Prakash got relief from the High Court and this order was challenged by the DCI before the Supreme Court.

The Bench passed its decision on August 29, 2001 which said, "It is held AIIMS cannot send representatives to DCI on basis of Section 3(d) as it is not a 'University established by law' in any state/union territory. Further AIIMS does not get automatically converted into such University merely because it has been empowered under AIIMS Act to confer degrees and diplomas."

This decision by the apex court gave clarity to the definition of a deemed university under the UGC Act. Since the Act provided for "an institution empowered by an Act of Parliament to confer or grant degrees" to be deemed as a university, AIIMS had sought the same status since the provisions of AIIMS Act gave the institute powers to grant degrees.

It may be recalled that AIIMS Act was constituted with the purpose of distancing political influence to maintain the administrative autonomy of the institute. Meanwhile, two separate petitions are pending against Ramadoss seeking his disqualification on similar grounds before the Election Commission and the Delhi High Court. The decision in both instances is awaited.

09-13-2006, 09:00 PM

Anti-quota panel wins AIIMS election QUOTENew Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here who oppose reserving seats in educational institutions have won the resident doctors association (RDA) elections Wednesday.

Elections to eight posts including president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary to represent RDA were held Tuesday. More than 75 percent of the over 1,000 students, interns and resident doctors exercised their franchise.

While Kumar Harsh won the prestigious presidential seat, Arnab Pal, M. Kukreja and Kaushal were elected for the post of vice president, secretary and joint secretary respectively. All of them had actively participated in the anti-quota protests here in recent months.

'It's a symbolic win for our commitment towards talent and the panel will continue its fight against reservation in educational institutes,' said Anil Sharma, who was elected the representative of senior resident doctors.
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09-22-2006, 12:12 AM

QUOTE450 AIIMS faculty face demotion 

Ramadoss holds up selection scissors to cut Venugopal's wings

Anbumani Ramadoss does not know when to leave things well alone. In his latest 'escapade', he has sought to scrutinise the entire selection process and promotion of assistant professors to the rank of associate professors under the Assessment Promotion Scheme (APS) that was launched in 1983

Sack Ramadoss.

09-29-2006, 08:42 AM

QUOTEFor Ramadoss, autonomy means bondage 
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Praveen Kumar | New Delhi
After battering AIIMS, Minister eyes JIPMER
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss's proposal to grant autonomy to the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Pondicherry is seen as a political move by the Minister to stamp his control over the premier institutes in India.

The Faculty of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has criticised the Government's move to alter the status and administrative set up of JIPMER. According to doctors at AIIMS, the autonomy is only a tool used by the political establishment and the bureaucracy to protect and promote their own interests.Â Â

The proposal approved by the Union Cabinet on September 7, intends to convert JIPMER into an autonomous institution through an Act of Parliament with a view to bringing it on par with two similar institutions such as AIIMS and the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh.

The step has attracted immediate response from doctors in Pondicherry and Delhi. The Faculty at AIIMS are deliberating on the issue and are in a process of preparing a resolution to express its stand on the episode.

A senior faculty member of AIIMS said, "Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss wants to have control over all the important organisations and institutions with ulterior motives. Whereas AIIMS is fighting to retain its autonomy which is being eroded by repeated interference of the Minister, he wants to control JIPMER under the garb of autonomy so that the control comes under the Ministry. In the light of recent statement by S Ramadoss, father of the Health Minister that after five years, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu would be Anbumani Ramadoss, it can be understood that the father-son duo is trying to dent the political environment in the State through these moves. Even within the existing arrangement, the Government could provide funds to improve its infrastructure. "The JIPMER employees are on a strike following the Government decision, confirmed institute director KSVK Subba Rao from Pondicherry.

"What is this government trying to prove? At one stage they are opposing the autonomy of AIIMS and now they are supporting the autonomy of JIPMER.

The Centre's move would only lead to frequent political interferences and reduce JIPMER to a centre of political power play," said another senior doctor at AIIMS.

JIPMER, is an attached and subordinate office of the Director-General of Health Services [DGHS], where the Health Ministry has a very little role to play. For every major work - be it a construction/expansion of hospital buildings or residential quarters, renovation of wards, creation and filling up of Group "A" and "B" posts, the prior sanction and approval of the DGHS is required. The irony is that AIIMS is being projected as the role model for JIPMER at a time when the Delhi-based institute's reputation has reached its rock bottom, thanks to Minister's repeated interference.

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10-02-2006, 11:55 PM

QUOTENDMC takes charge as Ramadoss plays politics 
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Praveen Kumar | New DelhiÂ
Having failed to corner AIIMS Director P Venugopal on other issues, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is now arming himself with the dengue broom to try and clean sweep the doyen away.

Even as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences grapples with a large number of dengue patients including inhouse staff, the Health Minister on Monday reportedly pushed for the incorporation of the dengue issue in the agenda of the October 10 meeting of the institute's body.

According to sources at AIIMS, for Ramadoss it's an issue on a platter to nail Venugopal. "It's sad that even as the city reels under a health crisis, the Minister is using this as an opportunity to settle personal scores."

Meanwhile, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Monday took control of the institute premises for providing full-proof sanitation. 2,400 additional personnel have been deployed in the fumigation and fogging drive with AIIMS hostels 4, 5 and 6 being their special focus.

At AIIMS, a four-member committee was set up to monitor the situation and ensure measures were in place to curb the epidemic. Medication to patients suffering from the disease was being watched.

A fever cell consisting of four teams of seven resident doctors has been formed to tackle the crisis. On Monday, 1,000 patients suffering from fever were examined in AIIMS out of which 10 were reported to be new cases of dengue. Thirty interns have been tasked to deal exclusively with patients suffering from dengue and a separate ward of 125 beds allocated specially.

"We have started a 24 hours laboratory service to examine the blood reports of all the patients suffering from fever. We are also encouraging people to donate blood so that there is no shortage during emergency," said AIIMS Medical Superintendent DK Sharma.

The resident doctors' association has also decided to hold a blood camp for two days in the campus from Tuesday. Meanwhile, the total figure of dengue patients in the institute went up to 45 on Monday; out of these 20 were campus residents. Three students are in Intensive Care Unit but in stable condition.

On Monday, even as the total number of dengue cases touched a scary 500 mark, the anti-dengue drive in the city was intensified. MCD has issued warning notices to 15 hospitals who have failed to take precautionary measures in controlling the Aedes mosquitoes.
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10-12-2006, 03:14 AM

QUOTEHealth Minister late on visit, pats AIIMS authoritiesÂ 
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Praveen Kumar | New Delhi
The doctors at AIIMS stepped into the shoes of Munnabhai to welcome Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Wednesday in the Gandhigiri style. Posters carrying "Anbumani Get Well Soon" were put up at every nook and corner of the campus. Students, doctors and the attendants of the patients at the institute greeted the Minister with red roses. 

And it worked. The Minister took a U-turn from his statement 10 days back when he alleged that the dengue case was on rise in the campus due to negligence of authorities. Ramadoss on Wednesday said, "The authorities at AIIMS have done a wonderful job in coping up with the situation." According to the resident doctors, Gandhigiri was the only way to show their sentiments to the Minister. The resident doctors and the students were upset with the Minister and complained that why did he visit AIIMS after 10 days when the situation at the institute has begun to normalise.

Spokesperson of the Residents Doctors' Association Dr Anil Sharma said, "This was to show that the Minister is doing dadagiri and we will in every way try to solve this controversy through Gandhigiri. It was a symbolic protest and we would like to draw his attention that we would not give up the issue so easily." Sharma even criticised the Minister for showing his vested interests in the institute questioning his visit to AIIMS when all the Government hospitals in the Capital were reeling under pressure to deal with the dengue menace.
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Meanwhile, 75 new cases of dengue were reported from across the city on Wednesday. However, in last 48 hours no deaths were reported giving some relief to citizens and authorities.

10-14-2006, 01:47 AM

QUOTEAIIMS faculty smells a rat 
Praveen Kumar | New Delhi
The agenda circulated for the institute body meeting of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on October 18 once again is aimed at cornering the Director of the institute, P Venugopal.

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has decided to re-consider the resolution (regarding the termination of P Venugopal) taken by the members of the institute body on September 5 this year and to have a fresh look at the functioning of AIIMS according to the Delhi High Court's directives on September 25.

Besides, the issues related to patient care services at AIIMS, situation due to dengue, discrimination and harassment of reserved category students and to consider the status of recent court cases and proceedings, are the prominent topics to be discussed at the meeting on October 18. Apart from this, any matter which would be considered essential with the permission of the Chairman can be discussed during the meeting.

Reacting to the agenda issued by the Health Ministry, a senior faculty member of AIIMS said, "He wants to make a personal issue against P Venugopal. To make allegations that the institute failed to take measures to control the dengue menace, it would be unfair for doctors, lab technicians, and nurses who are working round the clock so that the patients are examined and treated immediately. The Minister is just trying to politicise the thing by stressing one death. Once he appreciates the efforts of authorities and at the other time he is ready to pull them up for not taking efficient measures."

The faculty members are of the view that the meeting to be held on October 18 has been organised in order to justify the decision taken on September 5 against the Director. By saying that they want to have a fresh look on the entire matter, it is again clear that the Director would be made a scapegoat. The senior faculty members alleged that the Minister would also push the matter of retaining legal counsel of AIIMS Muktesh Gupta who, according to them, has been engaged in anti-AIIMS activities and in maligning the reputation of the Director. Even the standing parliamentary committee has criticised the way legal cases are being handled at AIIMS.

The faculty members also pointed out that the Minister by using Debashish Panda, Sanjay Kumar (Administrative Officer) and the OSD, DS Murthy, is trying to create cases of insubordination against Venugopal.

10-18-2006, 08:45 PM

Delhi HC restricts AIIMS governing body from sacking Venugopal QUOTENew Delhi, Oct 18: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday restricted AIIMS governing body from sacking Director P Venugopal. Justice Anil Kumar had yesterday reserved the order after hearing the nearly five hour arguments presented before him by Dr Venugopal`s counsels and the counsels representing the Centre and the AIIMS.

Senior Counsel Arun Jaitely and Advocate Maninder Singh appearing for Dr Venugopal had argued that the scheduled meeting was illegal as it was convened without proper notice and had a one point agenda of terminating the director`s services due to his differences with the Health Minister A Ramadoss.
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AIIMS meeting off to stormy start; Malhotra walks out
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"The meeting is illegal, improper, unconstitutional and sub-judice," Malhotra told reporters as he walked out of the meeting.

He said he was unhappy that minutes of the July five meeting were circulated to members only today after the meeting started.
Malhotra also said the minutes had no mention of the decision taken against Venugopal in the previous meeting.

Launching an attack on Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who was chairing the meeting and has been at loggerheads with Venugopal, the BJP leader said, "It`s the minister`s way of humiliating a senior surgeon who has been honoured by Parliament." The issues raised against Venugopal in today`s meeting include outbreak of dengue and anti-reservation protests on the campus.

"If there is an outbreak of dengue in Delhi, it is the minister`s fault and he should take the blame," Malhotra said.

10-27-2006, 11:02 AM

Anbumani Ramadoss quote says he is doctor and Health Minister -
Only Brahma can save India from Asuras.
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Â Â Â âHopefully, we will be getting 5-6 million doses,â
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Â Â Â âWe will now go to grassroots, even door-to-door surveys to move towards eradication of the disease.â
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Â Â Â âThere is no confirmed case of human avian influenza. I would like to assure...the situation is closely monitored and under control.â

Â Â Â âThere is no confirmed case of human avian influenza. I would like to assure ... the situation is closely monitored and under control.â

10-27-2006, 11:12 AM

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Dr. Ramadoss being honoured by Dr. M.N. Krishnan, co-chair of the celebrations committee of the recently concluded 2006 FETNA Conference 

Link

So he is connected with terrorist group

10-31-2006, 07:12 AM

QUOTEStick for govt in AIIMS case
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New Delhi (PTI): Delhi High Court has slammed the Centre for seeking removal of a judge from the bench hearing a case against AIIMS director P. Venugopal, saying it would send the âwrong messageâ.

The Centre had sought removal of Justice Anil Kumar from the case on the ground that he had prejudged the issue and so it should not be heard by him.

âYou canât quarrel with the judge, and by doing so you will be sending a very wrong message,â the court said, asking the Centre to delete the prayer.

The government had challenged a court order barring any adverse action against Venugopal.


This is sick, When Congress don't like laws, they illegally tries to change, when they don't like judge they tries to kick them out.
I thought, they are supposed to protect consitution.

12-12-2006, 07:35 AM

QUOTENew twist to AIIMS row over registrar's transferÂ
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Staff Reporter | New DelhiÂ
Another twist has been added to the imbroglio between the AIIMS faculty and the Ministry of health and family welfare.

Many faculty members and resident doctors are of the view that the ministry's attempt to interfere in the functioning of the AIIMS by stalling the transfer of institute's registrar VP Gupta amounts to contempt of court. 

According to a Delhi High Court order on Oct 18, 2006, "The respondents (Union of India and other respondents) are directed not to implement any adverse decision or resolution against the petitioner (P Venugopal). If passed against the petitioner till further order regarding his tenure appointment and his functioning as director of the AIIMS and any such resolution and decision shall be subject to the outcome of this writ petition". Gupta was transferred (Vig./2-745/2006) to be stationed at Rural Health Centre, Ballabhgarh by the AIIMS authorities by a memo dated Dec 9, 2006. AIIMS vigilance cell found that Gupta was misusing his position and was under-qualified according to the sources.
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**shamu** · 12-12-2006, 12:35 PM

Do people support starting a thread on unconstitutional and anti-judiciary activities of current UPA government? It may also list items where government deliberately decided to do its duty.

01-24-2007, 11:54 PM

QUOTERamadoss 'sponsored' PIL against VenugopalÂ 
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Staff Reporter | New Delhi
The counsel for director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) P Venugopal on Tuesday alleged that Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss had 'sponsored' the PIL filed in the Delhi High Court challenging his appointment as the head of the institute.

The petition filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) alleges that Venugopal's appointment made in 2003 for six years was illegal as the director was due for superannuation in the middle of his tenure in 2007.

The matter was argued before a Bench comprising Justices Swatanter Kumar and HR Malhotra.

Senior Counsel Lalit Bhasin, appearing for Venugopal, said, "The petition is a sponsored one. It is motivated and sponsored by the president of AIIMS who is also a Minister."

Replying to the allegation of the petitioner that a person could not hold the post after the superannuating age, he contended that the post of director of the institute was a tenure post and it was not regulated like other posts. 

He also argued that there was no provision regarding the upper age limit for the director to continue in his post and only minimum age limit was there.

The petitioner had contended that at present Venugopal was holding two posts of Head of the Department of Cardio-thorasic and the director of the institute, which was not legal.

moron is back with his agenda.

03-30-2007, 04:08 AM

QUOTERamadoss jolted, Venugopal to stay AIIMS director
New Delhi: In a new twist to the battle between Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and AIIMS chief P Venugopal, the Delhi High Court on Thursday held that the noted heart surgeon cannot hold two posts and terminated his position as professor in cardiology department. However, the court made it clear that the direction will come into effect after two weeks. "The Director cannot hold two posts and after appointment as Director of the Institute, his post as professor is terminated," a Bench comprising Justice Swantantra Kumar and Justice HR Malhotra said.

05-08-2007, 03:22 AM

QUOTERamadoss again tries to wrest control of AIIMS
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Health and Family Welfare Minister Abumani Ramadoss has made a fresh bid to wrest control of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) from its Director P Venugopal. In the Governing Body (GB) meeting held in his chairmanship on Monday, it was decided that the institute could not appoint any lawyer without the approval of the institute's president Ramadoss.

The body also decided to issue show cause notice to the Faculty Association for casting aspersions on the meeting of the GB. Moreover, the GB directed the institute to comply with its recommendations made in the last GB meeting held on January 24.

"The GB has decided that the appointment of lawyers on behalf of AIIMS would be made by president in consultation with the director. Only those lawyers will represent the institute," said Naresh Dayal, the Health Secretary. "But the last word will be of the president only," he said. The Health Secretary said that show cause notice would be issued to the Faculty Association of AIIMS. "Taking strong exception to the kind of news circulated by the association regarding the workings of the GB, we have decided to issue show cause notice against them," he said.

The Faculty Association had stated in its press release on Sunday that the GB is discussing personal issues rather than making some constructive efforts for the development of the institute.

Though the senior members of the AIIMS faculty and Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) were not even allowed to enter the premises of Nirman Bhavan, where the meeting was being held, UGC Chairman Sukhdeo Thorat was called and thanked by the members of the Governing Body for his findings of the report submitted on Saturday. The report alleged that the director of the institute was involved in promoting the anti-quota protests.

"Thorat was called in the last minutes of the meeting. He was invited. The members thanked him for his report and its findings," Dayal said. The power and functions of the GB and the director was also discussed in the meeting. It was held that all the recommendations made in the last meeting of GB held on January should be implemented as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, the faculty members of the institute present there shouted slogans against autocratic behaviour of the Health Minister and demanded that the reports of the MS Valiathan Committee that was constituted by the Prime Minister two years ago should be made public. According to sources, the Valiathan report said that interference of the Ministry in the working of AIIMS should be reduced.

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