Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann today accepted the resignation of Dr Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. After a dispute with Punjab Health Minister Chetan Singh Joramajra, vice-chancellor Dr. Raj Bahadur had sent his resignation to the chief minister on July 29.

He was upset over ‘humiliated’ behaviour by the minister during a raid at the hospital when health minister forced him to lay down on a dirty bed. The matter had sparked a political row as opposition sought termination of Jodamajra.

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Chandigarh: Under fire of opposition, the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) on Saturday admitted that it was an unfortunate for humiliating vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences.

While terming the incident at the university as “unfortunate” Chief Spoksperson Malvinder Singh Kang said that the manner in which the opposition is doing cheap politics over the issue is equally unfortunate. It is quite evident that the Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra was distressed to find the dilapidated condition of beds and lack of cleanliness at the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences where mostly poor people come to take treatment.

He said,, “No one from the opposition speaks when a poor man dies due to deplorable health conditions and cavalier attitude of government staff. The Health minister has been visiting government hospitals for a month now to transform the system. He did not want to disrespect anyone but the AAP government will not tolerate any laxity in the system,” Kang said. Later, in the evening, the minister had visited the government hospital in Bathinda and he lauded the staff for their services there.

Kang, however, clarified that the CM Mann led government has utmost respect for doctors and medical facilities and the state government is committed to safeguard their interest as well as to uplift the standard of facilities in the government hospitals.

Attacking the opposition for raising questions over academic qualification of minister Jouramajra, Kang dared the opposition to clarify that why they did not raise objection when Balbir Singh Sidhu and OP Soni were health ministers in the Congress government, as both of them were undergraduates.

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Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann has repeatedly apologised to the country’s senior surgeon Dr Raj Bahadur for the humiliation meted out to health minister Chetan Singh Jodamajra. Mann also asked the doctor to reconsider the decision to resign from the post of vice chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences Faridkot.

According to sources, Mann called up the doctor and apologised after the doctor sent his resignation to the chief minister this morning.

CM also told the surgeon that he was aware of his contribution to medical science and warned the minister against such behaviour.

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Chandigarh: A day after humiliated by Health Minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra, Vice-Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences Dr Raj Bahadur, on Saturday resigned from his post.

He has sent his resignation letter to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

Meanwhile, the the PCMS Association has strongly condemned the unceremonious treatment meted out to the BFUHS VC by the Health Minister.

The PCMSA State President Dr.Akhil Sarin said, “The PCMSA strongly condemns the unceremonious treatment meted out to the VC by the HM. Whatever the reason, the way the VC was maltreated, is deplorable. Such blatant disrespect for a senior health functionary is appalling, to say the least. The face-off has actually led to the State losing its only Spine Surgeon”.

Dr.Kanwaljit Bajwa, State Senior Vice President PCMSA said, “We express deep resentment over his unfortunate incident. Public shaming of a senior doctor on systemic issues is strongly condemnable. Instead of pragmatically addressing the issues of meagre funds allocation, medicine shortages, acute staff crunch and grossly inadequate infrastructure, the Government is busy hiding its indequecies by publicly mauling the public health officials in the garb of surprise checkings. The escapist attitude of the Government is truly uncalled for”.

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