Page 1 of 1: Rural service compulsory for doctors

piyushchawla · Credits: 7062 My Scrapbook

Rural service compulsory for doctors

Non-compliance with the guidelines will result in cancellation of registration

The Government has decided to impose one-year Compulsory Rural Service (CRS) on students passing the MBBS/ Medical PG degree/DNB or Diploma from Government-run Medical Colleges.

It will be mandatory for those students also who secure admission for medical PG/DNB or Diploma courses under Government quota in self-financing and cooperative medical colleges.

The doctors will be given a monthly pay of Rs.15,000 with an additional Rs.5,000 for those serving in difficult rural areas. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting convened by Health Secretary Vishwas Mehta here on Tuesday.

The Government has also decided that it will send advisory to the State Public Service Commission to debar candidates who have not fulfilled the CRS obligation, from seeking employment in either State or Central Government service. Doctors will not be considered eligible to appear for any higher examination unless they have completed one-year CRS.

The diploma students, however, need do rural service of only six months this year. From next year onwards, this will be for a year.

The Government has also made it clear that it may enforce the regulation of the Medical Council of India, which says that action be taken against a physician posted in a rural area, if he is found to be absent on more than two occasions during inspection by Health Department authorities.

Legal action and cancellation of registration will also be considered against those doctors who fail to fulfil the bonded obligation to serve in rural areas, the Government has warned.

The decision to cut short the CRS for medical PG students from two years to one year has been welcomed by the Junior Doctors’ Forum, which had been actively campaigning for this.

The bonded obligation on PG doctors to work for two years for the Government on a monthly pay of Rs.15,000 had met with stiff resistance.

lovarts · Credits: 185 My Scrapbook

Kottayam Guys are planning a legal proceeding against the new rule ( for undergarduates )

Others those who r wnt to join, r welcome

piyushchawla · Credits: 7062 My Scrapbook

October 10 deadline for joining duty

Otherwise, they will have to pay compensation

The Health Department has decided to move against 136 medical graduates and diploma holders who have not reported for the mandatory rural service by enforcing provisions of the rural service bonds.

Health Secretary Vishwas Mehta has said the Government would take steps to recover Rs. 13.9 lakh and interest thereof as compensation from each doctor who did not report for duty at the allotted hospitals. If the doctors did not pay up, the amount would be recovered from their sureties, he said.

The Health Department, he said, has formulated the “Snehithan-Snehitha” scheme to improve the services of Government hospitals. The students selected for admission to Government Medical Colleges had given the bonds agreeing to do rural service soon on completion of their graduation.

The erring doctors have been given time till October 10 to report before the Director, Kerala Health Mission, and join duty, following which the Government action will begin.

The Health Secretary said that 468 graduate doctors and 150 specialists had been appointed to various hospitals, from primary health centres to district hospitals, under the compulsory rural service scheme. More than 700 doctors had been deputed to various Government hospitals under the additional duty scheme to ensure the availability of their services in rural areas.

Mr. Mehta said the rural service counselling would start from September 20, with the first batch of house surgeons who completed their course on September 15 from the Government Medical College, Kottayam, participating. Those appointed for rural service would be given a consolidated salary of Rs. 15,000. Doctors deputed to remote rural areas would be eligible for an additional amount of Rs. 5,000, he said.

binui · Credits: 1771 My Scrapbook

SUCH AN UNFORTUNATE THING HAS NOT EVER HAPPENED EVER TO MEDICOS FROM KERALA
WHY NO ONE IS SEEING THE DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS THE STUDENTS OF GOVT MEDICOS ?THOSE PEOPLE OF THE SO CALLED PRIVATE MEDICAL COLLEGES ARE GOING TO BE FREE BIRDS AFTER THEIR MBBS AND CAN FREELY APPEAR FOR PG EXAMS WHILE WE PEOPLE WHOSE ONLY FAULT WAS APPEARING FOR KERALA PREMEDICAL TEST AND GETTING SEATS ON PURE " MERRITTTT" NOT ON LAKHS OF PURE BRIBE WE HAVE TO TOIL IN THE RURAL AREAS AND THUS LOSE TWO PRECIOUS YRS . DOES NOT THE GOVT CONSIDER THE ONE YEAR INTERNSHIP WE DO A SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE .THE PEOPLE OF PRIVATE COLLEGES LIKE IN AMRITHA ARE SUPPOSED TO ONLY SIT IN AIR CONDITIONED ROOMS DURING THEIR INTERNSHIP WITH THEIR PG BOOKS.
THIS IS PLAIN DISCRIMINATION BUT WE ARE NOT FOOLS WE WILL FIGHT IT OUT.

binui · Credits: 1771 My Scrapbook

,k

ds41kzd · Credits: 489 My Scrapbook

those who are afraid of cancellation of registration please refer to the medical practitioners' act 1956& amendments to the same and the code of conduct for medical practitioners --------all these are given at the website of the medical council of India...........don't be scared by what you find in prospectus

		Sign In New User? Sign Up Sign in to access your control panel and messenger!
				TechZone \| SpiderNevi \| HowTo? \| Scrapbook!