Tamil Nadu government doctors to stage protest on March 21
The bill proposes a common entrance exam and licentiate exams to be taken by all medical graduates to get practicing licenses.
Chennai: The government medical college students will be staging demonstration demanding 50 per cent reservation for government doctors in PG medical admissions on March 21, 2018, announced Doctors’ Association of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday.
The medicos are demanding a provision of 50 per cent reservation for government doctors in PG and super speciality medical courses, after the apex court and Medical Council of India denied the proposal for the same.
Medicos remained agitated about the non-implementation of 27 perc ent reservation for OBCs in all India quota PG medical seats and demand complete withdrawal of National Medical Commission (NMC) bill.
The bill proposes a common entrance exam and licentiate exams to be taken by all medical graduates to get practicing licenses. But the doctors are agitated at the proposal saying that this will dilute the medical education standards rather than strengthening it.
Doctors also alleged that the state government has failed to act in order to oppose the NMC bill that proposes to conduct an entrance test for MBBS students after graduation to avail practicing license.
Though the state government officials claim to have opposed the NMC bill since the draft of the bill was circulated and have demanded amendments of certain provisions like the National licentiate test, medicos demand complete withdrawal of the NMC bill.
“The rules and regulations by Medical Council of India for PG medical admission need to be amended, providing separate reservation to government doctors in PG and super specialty medical course. National Legal Medicine Evaluation tests for medical practitioners should not be introduced as it would affect the medical education in the state,” said Dr G. Rabindranath, secretary, Doctors’ Association for Social Equality.
The members of Government All Doctors’ Association (GADA) and Doctors Association of Social Equality (DASE) are to jointly organise the demonstration at around 4 pm on March 21, he added.