While Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has assured to provide necessary financial assistance to TUTH, the hospital´s officer bearers have agreed to implement employee transfer policy. [break]The office bearers have also agreed to provide more administrative rights to the director of TUTH.
Prime Minister Bhattarai, who is also the chancellor of TU, called a meeting of the office bearers at his residence and Dr Koirala was also invited to the meeting.
"We have agreed to fulfill the demands raised by Dr Koirala," said TU´s Vice Chancellor Hira Bahadur Maharjan. He said that PM Bhattarai was serious about reinstating Dr Koirala and doing everything possible to get him back on the job.
According to VC Maharjan, both the TU office bearers and PM Bhattarai on Friday tried their best to convince Dr Koirala to withdraw his resignation.
"Neither the prime minister nor we (the office bearers) have views different from that of Dr Koirala on rescuing the hospital," said Maharjan.
He said that Dr Koirala was positive about reconsidering his resignation. Dr Koirala could not be reached for comment.
“We have agreed to reform some of the policies to give more administrative rights to the TUTH director," he added. The TU authority has also agreed to implement employee transfer policy. As per the existing rules, the TU can transfer senior level employees every three years and junior employees every five.
Dr Koirala, in a statement after tendering his resignation, had complained about unsupportive staffers who were hindering his initiatives to transform the hospital. He had sent the names of some of the staffers, including senior professors, who had been creating obstacles in his mission to the TU authority seeking their transfer from the hospital.
Expressing disappointment with the TU administration for failing to fulfilling the promises made to him before his appointment, Dr Koirala had resigned from the post last Friday. He was appointed as director just three months ago.
Koirala had been appointed as the director to give a fresh lease of life to the hospital that had been plagued by chronic mismanagement and political interference. The hospital has been suffering huge losses and struggling even to pay salaries to its staff.
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