Five Resident Doctors of govt. run SMIMER medical college and hospital suspended for ragging/misbehaving with junior in ward

Surat: The anti ragging committee of Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research (SMIMER Medical college and hospital) has punished five resident doctors with suspension for misbehaving and ragging with a junior doctor in its Surgery ward five days ago.

Two junior doctors of the first year of PG course of Surgery department had made an online complaint in the anti ragging cell of the UGC about misbehaviour by seniors of the Orthopedic department after the incident on Tuesday.

After a heated argument about referring a patient, the seniors had allegedly caught the juniors from Surgery by collar and marched them in the ward.

Dean of the college Ms Kalpana Desai today said that the anti ragging committee of the college has decided to suspend one accused doctor for two terms/semesters ie for a year and another one for one term/semester or six months while three others have been suspended for one month each.

Notably, after the incident a junior from Orthopedic department had also filed complaint of ragging and beating up against a senior from Surgery department.

Ms Desai said that in the second case the accused has been issued strict warning.

She said that as per the UGC guidelines police was also informed about the incident within 24 hours.

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