A Special Medical Board was constituted on Tuesday to look into the pleas of some doctors to cancel their transfers on health grounds. The board examined cases of five transferred doctors. The board examined the doctors at the associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC). The Director General of health services Dr DS Rawat himself headed the board which consisted of top officials and specialists of different fields of medical sciences. Earlier the board examined doctors on July 08 and 09 and found that 15 doctors have feigned illness to get their transfers cancelled.
On the insistence of the state administration, the state health department constituted a special medical board comprising of the specialists to look into the claims of illness submitted by the some doctors. As many as six specialists were inducted in these special medical boards to check the veracity of claim of illness by the transferred doctors.
In the recent transfers the state administration had shifted 241 doctors of state health services.In an effort to strengthen medical services in the mountainous areas as many as 171 doctors were shifted to the hospitals located in these areas. While a majority of doctors joined the duties many requested cancellations of their transfers on medical ground. Some of the doctors even knocked the doors of the court to get their transfers cancelled but the court steadfastly refused to grant any reprieve to them.