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Kerala’s southbound portion nodal serviceman for Mrithasanjeevani, the government’s deceased donor organ donation programme, M.K. Mohandas resigned connected Monday, aft penning a cryptic enactment connected Facebook that escaped code was his law close and that helium was resigning owed to idiosyncratic reasons.
In August, a Facebook station by Dr. Mohandas, casting aspersions connected Mrithasanjeevani and the Kerala State Organ and Tissue Transplantation Organisation (K-SOTTO) had invited a censure announcement from the Principal of Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram. He had alleged that the inefficient functioning of K-SOTTO was liable for the mediocre complaint of deceased donor organ donation.
He was warned that arsenic a authorities servant, helium could not criticise the authorities connected societal media, pursuing which, helium had withdrawn his station and tendered an apology. According to reports, Dr. Mohandas’s abrupt determination to resign arsenic nodal serviceman of Mrithasanjeevani was pursuing a memo issued by the Additional Chief Secretary (Health) seeking an mentation connected his Facebook comments that allegedly showed the authorities successful mediocre light.
In complaint of 4 districts
Dr. Mohandas, who is besides the Head of Nephrology astatine Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, had been appointed the southbound portion nodal serviceman successful May 2024. He had been successful complaint of deceased donor organ donation successful Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta.
As nodal officer, Dr. Mohandas was expected to play a proactive relation successful enabling deceased donor organ donation by coordinating with neurosurgery and captious attraction departments successful aesculapian colleges arsenic good arsenic different hospitals, identifying imaginable cases of encephalon decease and enabling the process of organ donation.
Only 1 donation
Later successful the day, successful an authoritative statement, Noble Gracious, Executive Director of K-SOTTO, confirmed that the authorities had initiated disciplinary measures against Dr. Mohandas for portraying K-SOTTO successful a atrocious airy connected societal media, erstwhile the second himself, arsenic nodal serviceman of Mrithasanjeevani should person been playing a much affirmative relation successful enabling deceased donor organ donation. He said successful the connection that during each the months that Dr. Mohandas had been the southbound portion coordinator, conscionable a azygous deceased donor organ donation had happened astatine Thiruvananthapuram MCH. He added that if Dr. Mohandas was resigning owed to idiosyncratic reasons, ideally, helium should person submitted his resignation to the Director of Medical Education and not aired his determination done Facebook.
