Pune: A professor and head of department at the Pimpri Chinchwad civic body-run Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital and Postgraduate Institute has been removed from his post following a Vishakha committee report on a sexual harassment complaint against him. In July, a junior resident doctor at the hospital wrote in an anonymous social media post that the head of a department regularly molested women resident doctors at the college. The post was deleted soon after.
PCMC commissioner Shekhar Singh had directed the YCMH administration to conduct a fact-finding exercise. A report was sent to the Vishakha committee last month. YCMH dean Rajendra Wabale told TOI, “Based on the committee’s recommendations, the senior doctor was removed from the post of HOD on Monday.
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