India, Oct. 15 -- LUCKNOW

Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak ordered the termination of three government doctors, absent from duty for a long time, without information, on Wednesday.

The doctors were posted in Agra, Barabanki and Shrawasti. The deputy CM has directed additional chief secretary, medical and health, to process the terminations.

Action has also been recommended against a staff nurse and a woman doctor posted at Kabi Chaura District Hospital in Varanasi. The staff nurse had prepared a referral slip for a pregnant woman, without a doctor even examining her. She will be served a show-cause notice and suspended. The woman had reached the hospital on August 18. Disciplinary action has been recommended against the woman docto...