Dr Raj Bahadur

The incident involving Dr Maninder Kaur happened last month, more than 10 days before Dr Raj Bahadur was forced to lie down on a dirty hospital bed. She was then transferred from Mohali district to Barnala district.

Dr Bahadur, a specialist in spinal surgery and joint replacement, is a former director-principal of Government Medical College and Hospital in Chandigarh and has also been the head of the orthopaedic department at PGIMER, Chandigarh.

A day after humiliation on camera by Punjab Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra, the vice-chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences in Faridkot, Dr Raj Bahadur, has resigned from his post. He wrote to the state government today.

The incident involving Dr Maninder Kaur happened last month, more than 10 days before Dr Raj Bahadur was forced to lie down on a dirty hospital bed. She was then transferred from Mohali district to Barnala district.

Dr Bahadur, a specialist in spinal surgery and joint replacement, is a former director-principal of Government Medical College and Hospital in Chandigarh and has also been the head of the orthopaedic department at PGIMER, Chandigarh.

A day after humiliation on camera by Punjab Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra, the vice-chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences in Faridkot, Dr Raj Bahadur, has resigned from his post. He wrote to the state government today.