Ramadoss to issue show cause notice to AIIMS faculty

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Ramadoss to issue show cause notice to AIIMS faculty

[7 May, 2007 l 2226 hrs IST lIANS ]

NEW DELHI: Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss will issue a show cause

notice to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) faculty

association for censuring the report prepared by University Grants

Commission chief S K Thorat on caste-based discrimination at the

country's premier referral hospital.

After the governing body meeting Monday evening, health secretary

Naresh Dayal said that Ramadoss, who is also the president of the

institute, will issue a notice to the faculty.

As soon as the decision was announced, members of the faculty waiting

outside the meeting hall shouted slogans against Ramadoss.

They also took institute director P Venugopal away from the press

briefing area. Venugopal was also supposed to address reporters.

On Sunday, the AIIMS Faculty Association had said that the three-

member Thorat Committee, constituted by the Centre last year to look

into allegations of caste-based discrimination at the premier

hospital, was " an ad hoc kitchen garden committee " of the health

minister.

They had said: " We decry these attempts to tarnish our image. We have

a track record of performance and we do not practice any

discrimination on the basis of caste or creed. "

The association questioned the impartiality of the committee, saying

it consisted of " known associates of Union Health Minister Anbumani

Ramadoss, whose sole purpose seems to assail the AIIMS and its

faculty. "

The Thorat committee had submitted its report to the minister

Saturday.

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