The question that must occur to everyone is how is it that the DMCH authority appointed as many as 73 extra persons, and no one has been called to account for it so far. Why should the appointees suffer for the wrongdoing of others? The statement of the Director of the DMCH, trying to shrug off his responsibility in this very dubitable matter is quite illogical. The responsibility for the final approval is his and the appointment letters could not have been issued without his consent, that is, if he was in full control of his institution. Therefore, the contention that the additional appointments have been made without his knowledge is utterly absurd.

There are again, in this matter, all the indications of extraneous pressures on the management of the hospital, to which they succumbed without considering the consequences.

It could not have been an easy task to recruit only a handful out of several thousand applicants, as was in this case, given the pressures that authorities are subjected to in most cases of government recruitment. It's time that heads of government institutions realised the need to stick to established norms and rules of recruitment, in spite of political and union pressures. Failure to do so will result in what we see in the case of the DMCH today.

The government must inquire and take to task all those responsible for this state of affairs. After all, the DMCH cannot possibly suffer a work stoppage by the MLSS. That would seriously affect the DMCH's capability to provide medical succour to the common people. And those recruited must be paid their dues; not paying them would amount to penalising them for some one else's folly.