Bengaluru, March 12 -- Medical Education Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil has asserted that the State Government has made it mandatory for Government doctors in the State to record their biometric attendance four times a day and the doctors must be present in the hospital from 9 am to 4 pm.

The Minister made this disclosure while replying to a question by his party MLC Bilkis Bano in the Legislative Council recently.

"Following complaints about Government doctors working elsewhere during their working hours, the State Government has initiated strict action. It has been instructed that a doctor who reports for duty at 9 am must stay in the hospital till 4 pm and discharge his or her duties," said Dr. Patil.

Stating that doctors were ea...