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SKIMS doctors go on strike as admin demands 'Chai Pani' for giving accommodation Estates official transferred 11/24/2016 10:22:35 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 24: The SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura here Thursday transferred an official in its Estate department, to SKIMS Medical Hospital Bemina following protests by doctors who accused him of demanding bribe of rupees 20,000 as "Chai Pani" to provide accommodation to a group of young medicos. Official sources said the protests erupted when the Resident Doctors complained that the Estates wing of the hospital was demanding money for providing accommodation to their colleagues. All the resident doctors instantly stopped their work and went on strike raising slogans against the hospital administration. A delegation of protesting doctors told Early Times that it was for the first time in the history of this hospital that the administration was demanding bribe from its own people. "This is height of corruption that now even those giving their blood and sweat to the hospital are not being spared of Chai Pani," the doctors said. The medicos accused one of the officials in the Estate department of having told the young doctors that they could not get accommodation unless they grease the palms of the administration and that he had to pay to the higher-ups. Insiders said the SKIMS Director, Dr AG Ahangar, who is out of station instantly contacted a lobby of his loyalists asking them to persuade the doctors to call off the strike. However as the doctors remained adamant on "war against corruption" the officiating Director SKIMS Dr Altaf Kirmani is understood to have called an emergency meeting. "While the doctors demanded registration of FIR against the corrupt official, the administration assured them that the accused would be placed under immediate suspension," the insiders said. When contacted a senior official in the SKIMS downplayed the matter. "We have attached one of the estates officers and transferred him to SKIMS Bemina till further orders. All the medical registrars have agreed to call of the strike," the official said. Despite repeated attempts the Director SKIMS Dr AG Ahangar didn't respond to phone calls.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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