Tribune News Service

Pratibha Chauhan

Shimla, June 21

With the Health Department already struggling to get college for its 4 new medical faculties at Chamba, Hamirpur, Nahan and Mandi, the NMC situation to have biometric attendance may compound the issue additional, placing an finish to the stop-gap association made in the course of the inspections.

Biometric attendance now should

• The state authorities had been deputing senior college from the IGMC and Tanda on the new medical school at any time when the NMC inspection was scheduled
• Now, with the NMC searching for one 12 months biometric attendance, the college must be completely posted at these 4 new medical faculties
• The exodus of medical doctors from the IGMC and Tanda medical school has added to the troubles of the Health Department

The exodus of medical doctors from the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) and Tanda medical school in Kangra to the AIIMS at Bilaspur and Jammu has added to the troubles of the Health Department. In the final one 12 months, greater than a dozen medical doctors from the 2 medical faculties have joined both at Bilaspur or Jammu and two extra medical doctors have requested permission from the state authorities. The exodus of medical doctors has resulted within the Nephrology Department on the IGMC getting closed.

“The National Medical Commission (NMC) has now made it mandatory that the attendance of the faculty at all the medical colleges should be biometric so that one year record could be accessed,” revealed M Sudha Devi, Secretary, Health and Family Welfare. As such the excess senior medical doctors on the IGMC and Tanda can be requested to offer their choices for becoming a member of on the 4 new medical faculties, going through 30 to 40 per cent college scarcity, she added.

In the previous, the state authorities had been deputing senior college from the IGMC and Tanda on the new medical school at any time when the NMC inspection was scheduled. Now, with the NMC searching for one 12 months biometric attendance, the college must be completely posted at these 4 new medical faculties.

Himachal has confronted loads of drawback in increasing its well being infrastructure for need for specialist medical doctors, keen to serve within the distant areas, together with the 4 new medical faculties. In reality, scarcity of school had resulted within the Ner Chowk Medical College in Mandi going through the specter of being derecognised.

The 4 new medical faculties have been given recognition by the NMC for one 12 months solely as in comparison with three or 5 years in case of the 2 outdated medical faculties at Shimla and Kangra. Each of those 4 medical faculties has 125 MBBS seats, together with 25 for the economically weaker sections.

Since the Health Department is within the course of for making use of for beginning of submit -graduation programs on the 4 new medical faculties, the federal government is eager that not too many medical doctors are allowed to hitch exterior the state. “Since most of these doctors have availed benefits, including doing their PG while in service, it is unfair for them to move to greener pastures rather than serving in their state,” mentioned a senior official.