The health department principal secretary, Brajesh Mehrotra, on Wednesday asked the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences to sort out the issues related to the service condition of associate professor-rank personnel.

Mehrotra issued the directive to IGIMS director Dr N.R. Biswas in a closed-door meeting. "Quoting Nitish Kumar, the principal secretary asked the director to sort out the service issues because the chief minister took exception to the way the case of a woman associate professor was dealt with," said a source.

The source said the documents the lady associate professor received at the time of her reinstatement had a provision that she could be terminated later. He said the associate professor had called on the chief minister and expressed her concern about the clause that she could be removed again.

The case of the woman teacher dates back to 2013, when she was removed from the post after she had levelled sexual harassment charges on the then IGIMS director. Her case was re-investigated and she was reinstated in the same post earlier this year.

On the steps being taken by the IGIMS administration to sort out the service condition issue, its director Dr N.R. Biswas said: "No such issue was discussed in the meeting."

Besides the issue of the woman teacher, there was detailed discussion on the funds meant for the health hub in the meeting.

The director informed Mehrotra about the delay in issuing the funds of Rs 8 crore the hospital had received for purchasing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.

"I asked the principal secretary, health, to look into the matter. IGIMS has received some more funds for buying machines of different departments. I requested the principal secretary to process the funds as soon as possible," the director told The Telegraph.

The source said the IGIMS want to add the facilities (for which it has received fund from the state government at earliest) in the wake of the MCI report pointing out many deficiencies in the health hub.

The source said the principal secretary, health, Brajesh Mehrotra, talked about the compliance report the IGIMS had to send this week to the MCI in the meeting.

This would be the third time in a row that IGIMS administration would send compliance report to the MCI seeking its permission to allow its 100-seat MBBS course to run.

A board of governor member of the hospital said: "Most of the deficiencies the MCI had pointed out in its report have been fulfilled."