IMDH radiologist shortage: Ao Senden rejects dept reply, sets Oct 21 deadline

Kohima, October 17 (MExN): The Ao Senden has rejected the state Health and Family Welfare Department’s reply to its ultimatum and cautioned of its own course of action from October 21 over the shortage of a radiodiagnosis specialist at the Imkongliba Memorial District Hospital (IMDH) in Mokokchung.In a letter to the Principal Director of the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, the organisation said it was rejecting “in toto” the reasons stated in the department’s reply dated October 15, 2026.The Ao Senden Ao Senden Vice President Aowati and General Secretary Imtipokyim in the letter said that despite its request not to release the Senior Specialist Radiologist from IMDH until a replacement joined, the doctor was released following a department directive dated September 7, 2026. It added that a sonologist was never its demand and that “nothing short of a Radiodiagnosis Specialist will be accepted at IMDH.”It said not a single demand of its ultimatum served on September 16, 2026, had been met till date, accusing the department of adopting an “attitude of theatre of superiority instead of service to the needy.”Declaring that the Ao Senden will take its own course of action from October 21, 2026, it said the department will be “solely responsible” for any untoward incident during the course of action.