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A three-member sheet appointed by the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) has completed its enquiry into the allegations of intelligence harassment levelled against 2 module members attached to the Department of Psychiatry by the postgraduate doctors. A study is expected to beryllium submitted soon.
According to sources, Varghese P. Punnoos, Principal, Government Medical College, Kottayam, who is besides Professor, Department of Psychiatry; P.S. Indu, Principal, Government Medical College, Thrissur; and C. Raveendran, secretary, Institutional Ethics Committee, Government Medical College, Thrissur, are the members of the panel.
They archetypal visited the assemblage earlier this period and spoke straight with the 12 PG doctors who lodged the complaint. Interactions were besides held with nurses and nursing assistants, and functionaries of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), Kerala Medical Post Graduate Association, and the assemblage union. The sheet held sessions with the accused module members arsenic well. However, due to the fact that of the ongoing supplementary exams for the students, the proceeding was reportedly discontinued for immoderate days. Thereafter, online sessions were held with immoderate of the teachers, nonmigratory doctors, and staff, including V.P. Jithu, Head of the Department of Psychiatry.
In their ailment to the authorities, the PG doctors had alleged that the 2 module members utilized to consistently harass them successful beforehand of patients and their caregivers. The theses submitted by them were reportedly not approved connected time. Also, immoderate of the PG doctors claimed that the module members threatened to neglect them successful the exam if they did not toed their line. The PG doctors had said they filed the ailment past period aft the intelligence harassment and nationalist rebuke became unbearable.
Meanwhile, the SFI has sought strengthening of the PG grievance compartment mechanism, suspension of the module members from work on with their transportation to different institutions, and keeping them distant from introspection invigilation and thesis valuation duties.
