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Kishan Reddy seeks CM’s assistance in putting two medical institutes into operation

by Medically Speaking March 7, 2022

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G. Kishan Reddy, the Union Minister for Tourism, Culture, and Northeast Region Development, has urged Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to ensure that the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Adilabad and Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal, which are being built under the Prime Minister Swasthiya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), are operationalized as soon as possible by hiring enough staff.
Mr. Reddy stated in a letter to the Chief Minister that the PMSSY, which was launched by the Vajpayee government, envisions the establishment of institutions such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the upgrading of government medical colleges to add 150-200 beds, new operation theatres, 8-10 super speciality departments, and over 15 new post-graduate seats.

The government has allocated a total of 120 crore to the medical colleges in Warangal and Adilabad in order to improve healthcare quality. Despite a delay in receiving the State’s part last year, the Central government finished the construction of both institutes.

According to a news release, the Minister has asked the Chief Minister to guarantee that both institutes have sufficient staff and to discharge the outstanding balance of the State’s part in the case of RGIMS.

March 7, 2022 0 comment

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Medical students returning from Ukraine might being accommodated in Indian colleges, according to petition filed in SC

by Medically Speaking March 7, 2022

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NEW DELHI: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, requesting that the Centre and others, as a one-time measure, allow medical students returning from Ukraine at Indian medical institutes with valid Indian or foreign degrees.

In the alternative, the plea requests that the Centre and states work with Ukrainian authorities to declare some seats in central, state, or private medical colleges as overseas campuses of Ukrainian institutes for the purpose of continuing studies as a one-time emergency measure until the war-torn east European country returns to normalcy.

The petition, submitted by two lawyers, shows the predicament of Indian students who have been forced to drop out of different courses, including medical degrees, at several Ukrainian universities.

It claims that it is unclear when normality will return to Ukraine or whether students will be able to finish their degrees.

“Petitioners are public-spirited persons and utterly disturbed by the plight of the medical students, compelled to return to India leaving their medical courses in various colleges and universities in Ukraine,” the plea says.

While hearing a petition regarding the evacuation of some Indian medical students stuck near the Ukraine-Romania border on March 4, the Supreme Court noted the Centre’s claim that it has already evacuated 17,000 Indian students from the war zone.

The court had requested the Centre to consider establishing a “online helpline” for parents and families of students trapped in Ukraine, as well as to inform the high courts not to take up the subject of student evacuation in order to avert a slew of new lawsuits.

March 7, 2022 0 comment

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All Assam Medical Service Association called off its strike until November 14th

by Medically Speaking November 4, 2021

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GUWAHATI: The AMSA (All Assam Medical Service Association) has called off its ongoing strike after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma promised that the government would resolve their outstanding issues within a reasonable time frame. The AMSA’s emergent central office bearers’ meeting on Tuesday unanimously decided to withdraw the ongoing agitation temporarily until November 14 as a goodwill gesture to the government.

The AMSA’s emergent central office bearers’ meeting on Tuesday unanimously decided to withdraw the ongoing agitation temporarily until November 14 as a goodwill gesture to the government.

Take more vigorous steps of agitation after November 14, subject to approval by the forthcoming general body meeting of rthe organiation. State Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Anurag Goel in a letter to the All Assam Medical Service Association on Monday had assured of daily updates of the progress of work done by the government.

The Association also urged the government to take necessary steps to maintain the dignity of the Health (A) doctors working in the newly established medical colleges of the State like the Lakhimpur Medical College where senior doctors of Health (A) were being allegedly controlled by junior doctors of Health (B).

It also expressed its gratitude to the general members, unit office bearers, IMA (Assam State branch; Assam Dental Service Association; Assam Ayurvedic Doctors Service Association; Ayurvedic Medical Organisation (AMO); Assam Ayurvedic Doctors’ Association (NHM); All Assam Nurses Association (AANA), All Assam ANM & LHS Service Association; the media and well wishers of the aAssociation for their cooperation during the agitation programme. The All Assam Medical Service Association had launched its agitation on October 19 by boycotting OPD service for three hours demanding resolution of various demands. It was followed by a total OPD boycott on October 22, 26, 27 and 28. The Association had planned for another total boycott of OPD from November 1 to 3 before the government intervened.

Among the demands of the AMSA included cadre revision, time-scale promotion for Health (A) doctors; filing up of vacant posts of doctors,; two advance increments to diploma holders of Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences (SSUHS); pay for Health (A) doctors at par with the doctors of central government/Doctors of Health (B) and other Northeast States; timely promotions for Health (A) doctors at all levels; increase in PG seats for Health (A) doctors; paying Health (A) doctors for evening OPD service; rent-free quarters for Health (A) doctors and security to all health service providers of Health (A).

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Nod sought for additional 800 MBBS seats this year: TN Health Minister

by Medically Speaking October 25, 2021

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Ma. Subramanian, Tamil Nadu’s Health Minister, said the state government has applied to the Medical Council of India (MCI) for permission to add 800 more MBBS seats this year. The Minister told reporters on Saturday that the MCI has already granted permission to accept 850 students in the MBBS course at seven new medical schools in the State after examining construction work on the new Government Medical College in the district.

“We have sought permission to add 800 more seats this year. Of the 800 seats, 600 are being sought for four new medical colleges in Nagapattinam, Ariyalur, Dindigul, and Krishnagiri. We have requested to increase the intake at Ramanathapuram, Namakkal, Tiruppur, and Thiruvallur by 50 seats each taking the total to 200 seats. We will be meeting the Union Health Minister and others on October 27 in this regard,” he said.

Stating that the ‘Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam’ scheme (healthcare at the doorstep of people) has benefited 25 lakh, people, he said, “We are targeting to offer treatment to one crore people under the scheme this year.” The Minister said the government has taken steps to renovate buildings of primary health centres. Earlier, he held a meeting with Collector Dr. Arun Thamburaj on the Covid-19 situation in the district.

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PM Modi will inaugurate nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh and launch development projects

by Medically Speaking October 25, 2021

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During his visit to Uttar Pradesh on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate nine medical colleges and launch several development projects.

The PMO said in a statement that he will inaugurate medical colleges in Siddharthnagar and later in Varanasi the “Pradhan Mantri Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana,” and that he will also inaugurate various development projects worth more than 5,200 crore for his Lok Sabha constituency.

Prime Minister Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana (PMASBY) will be one of the largest pan-India scheme for strengthening healthcare infrastructure and will be in addition to the National Health Mission, the PMO said.

Its objective is to fill gaps in public health infrastructure, especially in critical care facilities and primary care in both urban and rural areas. It will provide support for 17,788 rural health and wellness centres in 10 high focus states. Further, 11,024 urban health and wellness centres will be established in all the states.

The PMO said critical care services will be available in all the districts of the country with more than five lakh population through exclusive critical care hospital blocks, while the remaining districts will be covered through referral services.

People will have access to a full range of diagnostic services in the public healthcare system through a network of laboratories across the country, and integrated public health labs will be set up in all the districts.

Under PMASBY, a national institution for one health, four new national institutes for virology, a regional research platform for WHO South East Asia Region, nine biosafety level-III laboratories, five new regional national centre for disease control will be set up, the PMO said.

Nine medical colleges to be inaugurated are in the districts of Siddharthnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur.

October 25, 2021 0 comment

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NEET could be held twice a year, and discussions over several sessions for medical admission are still ongoing

by Medically Speaking August 10, 2021

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From the following academic year, the medical admission exam, NEET, may be held twice a year. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had previously discussed holding the entrance exam in numerous attempts this year as well, but no solid answer could be found.

Vineet Joshi, director general (DG) of the National Testing Outlet (NTA), told a top news agency that thoughts of taking medical entrance exams numerous times a year are still on the table. If the consultations go well, it’s possible that NEET 2022 may be held twice a year starting next academic year.

The consultations between the two ministries on having multiple attempts at NEET started when Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank was heading the Ministry of Education.

As per the existing norms, the entrance exam for admission to medical colleges is held in pen and paper mode and in offline mode. The exam is held only once while for engineering, the entrance exam is held twice a year. To allow students more flexibility in the current academic year, the number of attempts were increased for JEE Mains 2021.

Medical aspirants too have been demanding to have multiple attempts at NEET. Earlier, the Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) — a student body too had written a letter to the then Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal seeking multiple attempts at NEET. “It is heartening to see that the National Testing Agency will be conducting the JEE for engineering institutions four times this year, giving each student multiple attempts to give their best possible performance, and also allowing for students impacted by health and other concerns to skip a test without having to drop a whole year. A similar decision must be taken for other “high-stakes” exams, including at least NEET and CLAT for medical and law colleges respectively,” the SIO wrote in the letter

August 10, 2021 0 comment

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MUHS directs medical colleges to start UG medical classes

by Medically Speaking Team April 29, 2021

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Maharashtra University of Health University (MUHS) has informed all affiliated colleges to conduct academic activities from the next academic year at present, even though final exams for the second and third year batches are yet to be conducted for the current academic year.

In a recent circular released by the University, it was stated that “It is notified that all colleges continue academic activities by optimum utilisation of various learning resources available so that there is no academic loss to the students and their syllabus is completed.”

It further stated that attendance of students will be maintained by colleges as per guidelines previously released circulars by the university.

The dean and principals of colleges have been directed to ensure strict compliance of Covid-19 safety protocols while conducting academic activities. “Teaching schedule of the next academic year should continue uninterrupted, as these students are carried over to the next academic year, irrespective of the exam results,” said the MUHS circular, signed by the registrar.

Usually scheduled to take place in the month of December-January, the second and third year MBBS exams were postponed three times this year due to the rising Covid-19 cases recorded across the state. As per the state government, these exams will now be conducted in the first week of June. However, holding of classes for the next academic year until exams are completed will leave students with very little academic time for the next year.

“While second year batches begin in the month of June, third and fourth year MBBS batches start their academic year in January itself. This year, since exams kept getting delayed, several colleges have already started taking lectures for the next academic year online,” said Brijesh Sutaria, parent of an MBBS student. He added that select few colleges are also conducting physical classes at present.

April 29, 2021 0 comment

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NBE releases guidelines on NEET PG 2021 Conduct with Covid appropriate behavior

by Medically Speaking Team April 10, 2021

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The National Board of Examination (NBE) has released the conduct of NEET PG 2021 with Covid-19 Appropriate Behavior.

The NBE will hold entrance test on the 18^th of April, 2021 for admission to 10,821 Master of Surgery (MS) seats, 19,953 Doctor of Medicine (MD) seats, and 1,979 PG Diploma seats offered by 6,102 government, private, deemed and central universities.

For details, refer to the following document:

https://natboard.edu.in/viewNotice.php?NBE=WVpnSzd4K0QzTUtNamtNbDVnWTRpUT09

April 10, 2021 0 comment

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Madras HC directs Medical colleges construction to abide by norms

by Medically Speaking Team April 3, 2021

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The Madras High Court has ordered the under construction medical colleges of the state to abide in accordance with the 2018 norms of the Medical Commission.

During the hearing, the state submitted that the norms were changed in 2020 by the Medical Commission and every attempt is being made to adhere to the latest norms by altering the construction to the extent possible.

The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy recorded the submissions and disposed of the plea by directing the State authorities to construct the buildings for the proposed national medical colleges to be set up in the State strictly in accordance with the applicable norms of the Medical Commission. “It will be open to the commission to depute personnel to inspect the nature of the construction on a periodic basis, if the commission so desires,” added the bench.

The petitioner contended that according to MCI guidelines, each medical colleges has to undergo various quality checks, from the identification of land till the completion, however, in the state things are being expedited for functioning from academic year 2021-22.

April 3, 2021 0 comment

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28% of MBBS seats cost over Rs 10 lakh per annum

by Medically Speaking Team March 8, 2021

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In India, about 28% of total MBBS seats cost over 10 Lakhs -per-annum effectively preserving them for the rich, a larger section than the reserved category.

In a detailed analysis of fees for the MBBS course in the over 530 MBBS colleges, it came out that about half of the seats in private colleges, excluding deemed universities, are in the management quota or NRI quota. In the NRI quota, the average annual tuition fee is roughly Rs. 25 lakh per annum, while for the management quota, it is around Rs. 11 lakh per annum.

Even some government colleges, mostly in Gujarat (11 colleges) and Rajasthan (8 colleges) have management seats (1,350) and NRI seats (580) at an average Rs. 18.5 lakh. In Punjab, the cost of MBBS in government colleges went up from Rs. 4.4 lakh to Rs. 7.8 lakh, among the highest in the country.

March 8, 2021 0 comment