Withdrawal of emergency of resident doctors in the state and COVID-19 Gujarat Health Minister Rushikesh Patel on Thursday protested against the delay in NEET-PG admissions, including at Ahmedabad’s BJ Medical College, announcing that the dean will be asked to fill 50 per cent vacancies for doctors’ recruitment till post-graduate admissions are done. right has been given. Welcoming the move, the junior doctors’ body of BJ Medical College has decided to return to duty.
Resident doctors in Gujarat are protesting the delay in NEET-PG admissions, mainly on the grounds that the absence of postgraduate doctors adds to their burden. The protesting doctors in the state are demanding that medical officers should be appointed to help with the work of the resident doctors till the new batch is inducted. Patel said that regular recruitments are going on by the state.
Deans empowered to recruit around 543 resident doctors on a stipend of Rs 63,000 till NEET-PG admissions are done on temporary basis for state-run hospitals in cities like Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Bhavnagar has gone.
Due to the delay in counseling due to vacant first year postgraduate posts in medical colleges, these will be ad-hoc appointments and the eligible candidates who will be considered by the Dean will be those who have completed their MBBS, appeared for NEET-PG exam and have obtained their results to be appointed as ‘Junior Residents’.
As the dean of a government medical college explained, “With no admission in the first year, a third of postgraduate students are missing. There are students who are waiting for the counseling sitting at home after completing the NEET-PG exam. So it will be a win-win situation, where our burden will be less and people sitting at home will also get a chance to gain experience.
Patel also announced in a press briefing that 260 MBBS doctors and about 100 specialists in PHC, CHC and district level hospitals have been appointed by the state through GPSC. A press release issued by the state government also said that 165 MBBS doctors would be deputed in six hospitals run by the state government.
With the matter of NEET-PG counseling pending for hearing before the Supreme Court, a government notification relating to reservation for OBCs and EWS in all India seats is being challenged before the apex court, Patel said, “ If a decision comes (from the Supreme Court), that’s fine and good, but if not, the Gujarat government is making adequate arrangements (from the resident doctors) to bear the burden.”
The Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA), a pan-India association, issued a press note on this day announcing that it would call off its protests for a week due to assurances from Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya that the Prime Minister’s Office We are looking into the issue and the process will be completed within a week.
The press note also stated that another reason for holding the association’s protest is to “see the security situation in the nation due to the untimely demise of the Chief of Defense Staff,” General Bipin Rawat and other army personnel. ,
While Patel also referred to Forda’s release during his press briefing, the Junior Doctors Association (JDA BJMC) of BJ Medical College clarified in a statement that it was “not associated with Forda or any such association”.
The JDA BJMC welcomed the state government’s move to “accept a major demand for appointment of non-academic junior residents” and announced that they would now be back on duty.
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