Click to play videoNew Delhi: The doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences now have one more reason to be angry with Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss – a delay in the notification for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 65 years.
The Cabinet approval to raise the retirement age came on June 5 2008 and on December 12, Ramadoss told Parliament that it had been implemented.
But it was only on December 30 that a memorandum was issued. But so far, the notification to implement the decision hasn't come.
Some doctors awaiting a benefit from the order allege that Ramadoss has been extending the tenure of selected faculty members who had supported him in the famous Ramadosss vs Venugopal battle.
Dr Sushma Vashishth, Head of the Radiology departmet; Sudhir Bahadur, a head and neck cancer surgeon; Dr Veena Karla, head of pediatrics and Dr Sampat Kumar, Prof CTVs retired in April 2008. While the first three doctors left the institute, Dr Sampat Kumar's service was extended by the minister, not once, not twice but thrice.
“We condemn this method being adopted by the minister of picking and choosing who should be given extensions,” says one of the docs Binod Khaitan.
The faculty association of AIIMS took their grievances to the PMO, which has now instructed the Health Ministry to withhold any further extensions of doctors till the Ministry can give a clarification to the PMO.
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