Kolkata: WB Guv writes to Health dept to take action on demands for removal of WBUHS VC

West Bengal Goverr Jagdeep Dhankhar has written to State Health Department to take appropriate action into demands for removal of vice-chancellor of WBUHS Dr. Rajendra Pandey for his alleged professional misconduct, officials said on Thursday.  goverr is Chancellor of all state universities including West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS).

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Goverr writes to Health Department

Goverr's secretariat h written to Health Department to take appropriate action into demands for removal of Pandey from post of WBUHS vice-chancellor, y said. In a communication dated December 16, 2019, to joint secretary in state health and family welfare department, of Goverr's secretariat said, "for kind attention and appropriate action into matter".

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ethics committee of Medical Council of India on vember this year h reprimanded West Bengal Medical Council President Dr. Nirmal Majhi, n director of SSKM Hospital Dr. Prip Kumar Mitra and Dr. Rajendra Pandey, who was n HoD Nephrology department for alleged professional misconduct in an attempt to perform dialysis of a dog at city's SSKM Hospital in 2015.

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committee called three doctors' attempt as condemnable and directed m to refrain from attempting such procedure in future. In 2015, a dog of a relative of Dr. Majhi was taken to for dialysis to SSKM Hospital, though it is t a veterinary medical institution.

Media reports suggested that Dr. Maji also an influential Trinamool Congress leer allegedly wrote a te to Dr. Pandey, who forwarded matter to Dr. Mitra. dialysis, however, did t take place after a huge uproar. Heeding to Maji's request, Pandey n nephrology department he h forwarded matter to hospital's director Dr. Preep Mitra.

Incidentally, Mamata Banerjee government has recently directed vice-chancellors of all state-run universities to route all communications to Chancellor through Higher Education department only.

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