Haunting RIMS with missing documents : Engineering ‘disappearance’
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: January 20, 2015 -
The Regional Institute of Medical Sciences :: Pix - TSE
This is a cause for concern. The Regional Institute of Medical Sciences has been making it to the news for all the wrong reasons.
And it has been like this after former Director Professor Sekharjit was unceremoniously removed from his post some time last year.
Charges and counter charges and with this becoming the norm rather than an exception, the web of intrigue haunting one of the premier medical institutes in the North East region is disturbing indeed.
The latest is the revelation that several documents delivered to the RIMS authority by the Central Bureau of Investigation indicting a senior official of the institute in ‘swindling’ cases have gone missing.
Not likely that the documents have been misplaced and given the infamous tag that RIMS has earned for itself down the years, it is more than likely that the ‘disappearance’ may have been engineered.
Another case for casting aspersions on the functioning of the institute and it is this which is unacceptable.
All the more reason why the matter should be probed and the guilty, if there are any, be penalised according to the laws of the land.
For the record, RIMS is not and cannot be the personal fiefdom of anyone. More than right that this should be drilled into the heads of all concerned and the time is more than ripe to set the house in order.
It also goes without saying that the cleansing process should start from the top for no one would have been in a position to toy around with such important documents prepared by a body like the CBI.
It would also be right to set a precedent and that is the long arms of the law will catch up with anyone, no matter how powerful or influential one may be.
That Manipur did not get RIMS then known as RMC or Regional Medical College on a platter is something which should be acknowledged.
A point which should be drilled into the heads of all those who occupy key positions in the medical institute.
RIMS should be what it is and no effort to steer away from the purpose in which it was first set up should be tolerated.
Apart from being a place of learning and honing one’s skill in what is today known as the noblest of all professions, it is also a place to care for the sick.
How far have these points been drilled into the heads of the top honchos who call the shots at RIMS ?
From what can be observed in the last few months it may be safe to surmise that these points have reeled off the back of the people who matter like water off a duck.
An unfortunate statement that the very set of people who are there to care for the sick and dying have not hesitated in underhand dealings. It is this which should not be tolerated at all.
In many ways what is happening at RIMS today may be said to be a fruition of the overall culture of cosying up to the power centres.
Merit be damned as long as one knows or masters the art of sucking up to the powerful and the influential.
Such a practise should be anathema to the very idea of a place which is there to train professional health care givers and to care for the sick and the dying.
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