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'Tripura govt. doctors cannot run private chambers more than 3 hrs': High Court
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'Tripura govt. doctors cannot run private chambers more than 3 hrs': High Court
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AGARTALA, May 29 (TIWN): On yet another barrier to the private chamber service of the Tripura Government doctors Tripura High Court (HC) on Friday putting a ban on the govt. doctors running private chambers for the maximum period of time ordered that no govt. doctors are allowed to run their private chambers more than 3 hours during the working days, whereas during the holidays they can run private chambers maximum upto 6 hours. However, the next hearing of the case would be again on the month of July this year.The court under the division bench of Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Subhashish Talapatra on Friday has also put a ban on any kind of engagement to the private hospitals or nursing homes by the Govt. doctors here. According to the court order, the govt. Doctors can charge maximum of Rs. 200 from the patients in their private chambers and along with the doctors would need to provide receipt of it to the patients. Besides, if same patient visits the doctor for the second time than the doctor would have to charge Rs. 100 only, court ordered on Friday. Besides putting a ban on certain issues related to the govt. doctors and their private treatment the court also ordered that the govt. doctors would have to set up their private chambers in their own residential houses or if doctors reside in the rented house than the chambers would have to opened in the rented house. A large number of senior Doctors, including Assistant Professors and Associate Professors of AGMC, have allegedly been doing private practice during duty hours, said a senior health official.

It is worthy to mention here that earlier this year on the month of May based on the information that senior doctors have been abstaining from hospital duties in the evenings and were, instead, practising in their private chambers, the state health department authorities have served at least 10 govt. doctors show-cause notices.   

It was alleged that the negligence of duty on the part of senior doctors in the medical college has ruined the work culture. The emergency service of AGMC is being run by junior doctors without any supervision from the seniors.

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