NEW DELHI: A day after TOI highlighted the resentment brewing among doctors against the AIIMS Director, Dr M Srinivas’s controversial orders for special treatment of Member Parliaments, institute authorities on Friday withdrew the order. The controversial order was withdrawn by chief administrative officer Deo Nath Shah, after various doctors associations raised objections to it and dubbed it as an attempt to promote VVIP culture by the hospital authorities. The withdrawal order stated — “letter dated October 17 on the subject of medical care arrangements for sitting Members of Parliament in AIIMS may be treated as withdrawn with immediate effect.” Welcoming the move, President of Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) Dr Rohan Krishnan, who is an orthopaedic surgeon at PGIMSR, Delhi, said the SOPs issued by the director for the treatment of MPs was “absurd”. He should have issued an order to streamline the patient management rather than only for VVIPs. “We are glad that the order has been withdrawn,” said President of Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) Dr Aviral Mathur, anaesthetist in Lok Nayak hospital. He added that the treatment was provided to parliamentarians earlier too but the way the order was issued it seemed that the hospital authorities were going out to please politicians. “Priority should be the patient, not the particular class,” he added. Ever since Dr M Srinivas took over as a director of the institute in September, he has issued a series of instructions in a bid to make patient management better. However, a few of them have generated controversies.
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