JJ Hospital ophthalmology department limps back to normalcy

Mumbai: The state medical education department has appointed joint director of medical education and research Dr Ajay Chandanwale to streamline Sir JJ Hospital’s ophthalmology department after it accepted the resignations and voluntary retirement request of Dr Ragini Parekh, head of the ophthalmology department, and seven honorary doctors on Saturday. On Saturday, the medical education department had also accepted the resignation of the ex-director of medical education and research Dr TP Lahane from the post of coordinator of state government’s Preventable Blindness-Free Maharashtra programme along with VRS request of Dr Parekh. While a high-level drama went on with Dr Lahane and his team holding a press conference denying the allegations levied against them by the resident doctors and calling it a conspiracy against them, sources at the medical education department said figures of cataract surgeries done in all state medical colleges in the last one year was called. “With the claims of JJ Hospital’s ophthalmology department doing more cataract surgeries, last one year’s data of all medical colleges were called in.