The Telangana Director of Medical Education (DME) has served show-cause notices to 32 faculty members from government medical colleges. They were found absent from duty for more than a year while working in other institutions. The notice, dated November 7, states this long unauthorized absence breaks service rules and counts as a deemed resignation. Reports from principals and hospital superintendents showed many assistant professors, tutors, and senior faculty from departments like anaesthesia, general medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, cardiology, urology, and neurosurgery were missing from government duty. Among the 32 doctors, 7 are from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Adilabad, 2 from GMC Bhadradri Kothagudem, 5 from GMC Kamareddy, 11 from GMC Jagtial, and 7 from GMC Sangareddy. The notice said, "The absence of doctors from high-dependency departments has caused inconvenience to the hospital administration and people have been deprived of the medical care in a government hospital/college." Using Fundamental Rule 18 and Telangana Leave Rules of 1933, the DME has decided to provisionally terminate the doctors' services from the date they went absent. The doctors have been asked to appear in person and explain within 15 days of receiving the notice. The notice warns, "Failure to do so will be taken as an admission that they have no defence to offer."