India, Sept. 21 -- In a commendable step towards ensuring workplace discipline in public healthcare facilities, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation on Thursday transferred a senior physician from its Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) with immediate effect for allegedly threatening a junior resident doctor during an argument over patient care.

Municipal commissioner Shekhar Singh ordered a departmental inquiry against the senior physician and shunted him from the civic hospital to Bhosari Hospital. The transfer will be recorded in his service book, said officials on Saturday.

According to reports, the senior doctor used abusive language against junior resident Dr Nitesh Pandegale after accusing him for asking a patient's fam...