Medical Officers Association expresses concern over inter-directorate counselling

The Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association (TNMOA) flagged superior concerns implicit the behaviour of inter-directorate counselling for transfers from the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services (DMS) and Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (DPH) to the Directorate of Medical Education (DME), alleging that the process disregarded “long-established principles of seniority, transparency, and fairness”.

In a connection issued, the relation said that during the counselling conducted connected Saturday, work seniors, who person rendered years of authorities service, were denied information solely owed to the information of one-year presumption seniority.

For the archetypal clip successful caller years, the inter-directorate seniority database was not published anterior to counselling, depriving doctors of the transparency indispensable to verify their presumption and eligibility.

Many doctors with little than 1 twelvemonth of presumption seniority, and successful definite instances, adjacent little than 1 twelvemonth of full service, were reportedly permitted to enactment and opt for aesculapian assemblage postings without adjacent submission of work proformas, portion galore elder doctors remained excluded, the TNMOA alleged.

This has caused wide disorder and panic among authorities doctors serving nether DMS and DPH, particularly those who person spent respective years successful difficult, remote, and underserved areas portion patiently awaiting opportunities successful DME institutions.

The relation demanded that the State authorities cancel the counselling, people the inter-directorate seniority database successful a transparent manner, licence each eligible candidates to taxable their work particulars and proformas, assistance exemption from the one-year presumption seniority criterion for the contiguous counselling rhythm and re-conduct the counselling aft completion of DME promotions and consequential transfers, ensuring fairness to each work doctors, the connection said.