Overview
- The hospital administration also vacated his government-provided accommodation and sent a detailed report to senior Uttar Pradesh health officials.
- The clip shows the doctor dancing with his fiancée in a room on the upper floor of the Kandhla Community Health Centre in Shamli, which officials called unacceptable conduct.
- Medical Officer Virendra Singh issued a notice seeking an explanation and said action followed when the response was deemed unsatisfactory.
- The doctor, identified in reports as Dr Afkar/Waqar Siddiqui, was recently appointed on a two-year contract and posted to the emergency ward.
- Public reaction was divided, with criticism over behavior in a government facility and defenses that the dance was harmless, and coverage referenced a prior similar incident in Hapur.