Health Minister Changes Tune about Doctors from Bihar
New Delhi: Dec. 20, 2007
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, on Thursday, backpedaled from his earlier statement denigrating medical doctors from Bihar saying he was a physician himself and insulting doctors from other states would be the last thing he would ever do.
Ramadoss' statement was a stark turnaround from his statement he made at a meeting in New Delhi on December 14 when he said that due to an inept Bihari doctor, England, in the '70s took the steps to derecognize Indian medical degrees.
"I was told of the incident by a senior doctor. I have always maintained that the Indian doctors were the best in the world and I have immense respect for them," the Health Minister said in an attempt to shift the blame on someone else while refusing to admit he mis-spoke or tender his resignation as demanded by doctors in Bihar.
As reported before, medical practitioners in Bihar, angry by the insult hurled at them by the Health Minister, had demanded an unconditional apology from him while asking the Prime Minister to throw him out of the Cabinet.
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