By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The KSU has taken strong exception over the attempt of two doctors in the North East Indira Gandhi regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) to tarnish the image of women from the State.
The two doctors in question are Dr DK Parida from the Oncology department and former dean Dr PB Bhattacharya, Head of Department, Anesthesia.
KSU general secretary Hamlet Dohling has revealed that the two doctors had written a letter to Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on November 1 2010 claiming that the women from the State are giving bribes to get a job in the institute.
“What is more grievous is the inference that women from the State are also giving sexual favours to get jobs in the institute,” Dohling said, adding that these women in question are aspirants for the job of staff nurse, lady wardens and other faculty positions at NEIGRIHMS.
The KSU general secretary also informed that the two doctors also claimed that there are women who have close links with a powerful politician and are using that clout to get employment in the institute.
“I strongly feel that this is a slur on the women of Meghalaya as there are other women from the region also who are working in NEIGRIHMS,” he said.
According to Dohling, there is an attempt to keep this letter under wraps and it is only because of their sources that they could get hold of it.
“We will be writing to the Union Health Ministry for taking stringent action against the two doctors,” he said and added that if the Union Ministry fails to take any action then it would force the student body to adopt its own course of action.
The KSU leader challenged the two doctors to prove the allegations they have made against the women of the State. Meanwhile, Dohling also informed that this is not the first time that the two doctors have tried to tarnish the image and functioning of the institute.
He said it is because of Dr Parida who had filed a court case challenging the appointment process that the NEIGRIHMS has not been able to recruit the required faculty.
Referring to Dr Bhattacharya, the KSU leader said he was attempting to take away the seats of the students from the State in the MBBS course in NEIGRIHMS.
If it was not due to the intervention of the student body, Dohling said that the Union Ministry would not have allowed the State Government to select the students for the MBBS course in NEIGRIHMS on the basis of the percentage of marks secured in their Class XII Science results.