8 April 2020, Lumbini
The Province 5 government has fired five doctors of Lumbini Provincial Hospital on the charge of failing to report to duty during the crucial time of coronavirus pandemic.
Those taken action against include Bardan Wali and Tara Prasad Sharma of the radiology department, Prakash Neupane of the ENT department, Subas Chandra Chaudhary of the urosurgery department and Prakriti Karki of the emergency department.
All of those were working for the hospital located in Butwal, the provincial capital, on a contract basis.
“They were absent without informing the hospital administration,” the hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Rajendra Khanal informed “Then, Social Development Minister Sudarshan Baral instructed us to immediately sack them.”
Minister Baral shared he has been checking the hospital staff’s attendance daily. He has also instructed the government hospitals to immediately sack doctors and other staff if they took leave without informing the authorities except in cases of bereavement, childbirth, and sickness.
