Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister has ordered an immediate replacement of the medical superintendent of AIIMS Trauma Centre based on the report of a four-member enquiry committee set up to examine the suicide of a journalist on July 6. The journalist, Tarun Sisodiya jumped off the fourth floor of the trauma centre.
The 37-year-old Delhi journalist was being treated for COVID-19 at the trauma centre. He used to work for a Hindi daily and lived with his wife and two children in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura. Bringing allegations against the treatment about which the journalist reportedly whatsApped his collegues, journalists have been seeking a judicial probe into the death. The Union Minister, however, said the committee did not find any mala fide.
