THE Tamil Nadu health department on May 1 removed the dean of a medical college from his post a day after first-year students there took the Maharshi Charaka Shapath instead of the Hippocratic Oath. After the incident, Dr. A Rathinavel, the dean of the Madurai Medical College, was placed on the waiting list. The state health department said that the act was "strongly condemnable". A departmental inquiry was ordered against the dean for allegedly violating rules, said state health minister Ma Subramanian. However, according to media reports, the dean was later given a warning and reinstated in the same post after the intervention of Chief Minister MK Stalin.
On April 2, the National Medical Commission had recommended that the Charaka Shapath should replace the Hippocratic Oath in MBBS courses. However, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in Parliament that the Charaka Shapath would be optional and would not be forced on students.
On April 30, the first-year students of the college were made to take the Maharshi Charaka Shapath from a Sanskrit text, instead of the conventional Hippocratic Oath in English.
The incident took place in the presence of state finance minister PTR Palanivel Thiaga Rajan and commercial taxes minister P Moorthy. Rajan immediately objected to the oath being taken in Sanskrit and expressed his concern at the move. He even took to the microphone and said that he was shocked when he heard the new oath. "I always thought that the doctors took a Hippocratic oath. In fact, I've been recommending politicians to take the same oath," he was quoted as saying.
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