A posting order of doctors, issued via way of means of the Bihar health department on August 12, has now long gone viral after it was discovered that the listing allegedly mentions the name of a woman physician who died around eleven months back.
This is the second time in 5 months that the health branch has allegedly goofed up with its posting order of doctors. Earlier, on March 8, the branch had promoted and published as a civil doctor of Sheikhpura Dr Ram Narayan Ram, who died on February 7.
As per the latest authorities order, the physician in question, Shiwangee, was to join the Darbhanga Medical College Hospital (DMCH) as a senior resident withinside the branch of anesthesiology. Associate professor and head of the branch of anaesthesiology, DMCH, Dr Hari Damodar Singh, stated Shiwangee had not joined as yet.
“Some journalists showed us newspaper cuttings of the news related to the doctor’s death last September when she was posted at the Nalanda Medical College Hospital in Patna. All I know for sure is that she has not joined my department as yet,” he said.
The government order, posting 406 doctors to different health facilities across the state, had asked them to join their place of posting within a week from the date of issue of the order.
“You should pose this question to the department,” said Dr Manibhushan Sharma, medical superintendent, DMCH, when this reporter asked him about the doctor posted to the anesthesiology department of his hospital. “We get to hear from people that the doctor, posted here as per the order, has died some 11 months back,” he added.
Dr Sharma then defended the department.
“The posting order in case of Dr Shiwangee clearly mentions under the column of ‘online registration number’ that she ‘did not apply. Registration numbers are mentioned in the case of other applicants. So, how can a person who did not apply be posted to someplace. Her name may have figured erroneously in the list,” he added.