AIIMS doctors vent ire over unpaid conveyance dues

There's a strong resentment among faculty doctors at Patna's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) over non-payment of conveyance allowance to them for the last six months, said officials familiar with the matter on Tuesday.

- Ruchir Kumar

PATNA:

ED Dr Saurabh Varshney, who met the faculty doctors in presence of the institute's president Dr Subrata Sinha on Monday, told them that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) had stopped the reimbursement of conveyance allowance, said a doctor privy to the meeting.

He, however, did not share a copy of the ministry's order till Tuesday evening despite request by the faculty doctors to circulate it among them.

"It is a ministry issue, and the institute has nothing to do with it," said Dr Varshney. He also denied that any doctor had sent him a representation regarding non-payment of conveyance.

"It was our internal meeting, which is a routine affair. I don't understand how it concerns the media. It was just an interaction which the president of the institute wanted to have with the faculty doctors. No major issues were raised," said Dr Varshney, downplaying the issue.