Bengaluru: The members of the Bharatiya Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Vedike, comprising some doctors and other staff members of Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology have alleged that institute director K.B. Linge Gowda has indulged in large-scale corruption.
At a programme organised in the institute on Tuesday for the groundbreaking ceremony of Infosys Foundation Dharmashala in which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presided, the vedike members, led by R. Vinay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Radiology in the institute, tried their best to submit a memorandum to the Chief Minister demanding a high-level inquiry against the director. However, the police stopped them from meeting Siddaramaiah.
Demanding that the Chief Minister take over the chairmanship of the Governing Council of the institute from Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash R. Patil, Dr. Vinay Kumar said that the director has been involved in various corruption cases, and 13 Lokayukta cases have been filed against him.
The Chief Minister, speaking on the occasion, has expressed concern over the reluctance on the part of medical graduates to take up rural service. Lauding the contribution of Infosys Foundation Chairperson Sudha Murty for the construction of a new dharmashala, the Chief Minister said other businessmen should emulate her example.
Speaking about her concern for the poor in government hospitals, Sudha Murty said both her children were born in a government hospital. “My father was a doctor in the government-run Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences and I spent my childhood in the environs of the hospital,” she said.
