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Doctors’ associations person warned that the Tamil Nadu Health Department’s program to redeploy 400-odd inferior nonmigratory (JR) posts crossed authorities aesculapian colleges successful the State could adversely impact diligent attraction and summation the workload for existing staff.
Organisations including the Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA) and Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association (TNMOA) person expressed beardown absorption to the move.
TNMOA’s caput M. Akilan, successful a statement, said this move, nether the pretext of creating caller postgraduate (PG) seats, poses a superior menace to healthcare transportation successful authorities aesculapian institutions. Redeploying existing manpower from halfway departments specified arsenic General Medicine, General Surgery, and different objective specialities volition inevitably weaken diligent attraction services.
TNGDA president K. Senthil said an consciousness programme against this determination volition beryllium held connected November 10, followed by a State-wide protestation the adjacent day. “The section plans to redeploy JR posts predominantly from the 11 caller aesculapian colleges, and a fewer others specified arsenic Karur and Pudukottai. The redeployment is for assorted reasons, including to conscionable manpower needs astatine definite institutions. The section cannot redeploy JRs without factoring successful diligent care,” helium said.
Describing the determination arsenic “absurd and hasty”, helium said the redeployment is being considered adjacent earlier applying for caller postgraduate courses, apt to beryllium submitted lone adjacent year. “The section seems to person misinterpreted National Medical Commission (NMC) norms that determination is nary request for a abstracted cadre of JRs erstwhile station graduates are disposable successful the institution. If implemented now, we volition basal the hazard of de-recognition for undergraduate courses, arsenic departments volition autumn abbreviated of JRs, and NMC inspections volition instrumentality enactment of the deficiencies,” helium added.
‘Will impact diligent care’
Dr. Akilan added that alternatively of strengthening the nationalist wellness system, this workout volition trim the disposable workforce, summation the load connected existing staff, and compromise the prime of attraction provided to lakhs of patients who beryllium connected authorities hospitals each day.
If the government’s nonsubjective is to grow PG aesculapian education, caller posts with caller fiscal authorisation should beryllium created. Redeployment of existing posts is not expansion, it is specified redistribution. While astir 400 doctors whitethorn straight look displacement owed to this move, the larger and much alarming effect is the erosion of objective services crossed authorities hospitals that volition impact the public, helium said.
TNMOA urged the State authorities to instantly retreat the bid connected JR redeployment and alternatively authorisation caller posts with due fund allocation for the projected PG seats successful the 11 caller aesculapian colleges.
But this does not extremity with JR posts alone. “There is different circular from the authorities seeking details of surplus posts of doctors including professors to beryllium surrendered for the intent of redesignation,” Dr. Senthil said.
