HC allowed medicos to pay half the fees

HC allowed medicos to pay half the fees

Chalimeda Ananda Rao Institute of Medical Sciences Karimnagar, MNR Medical College Kukatpally, Medicity Institute of Medical Sciences Medchal and MNR Dental College Sangareddy approached the apex court, challenging the high court’s ruling.

 Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association and Telangana Junior Doctors Association, which fought the case on behalf of the students in the high court, have already filed caveats before the apex court. Ever since the high court found fault with the fee structure, the state government had remained silent and did not cha llenge the court order while the private medical colleges moved the Supreme Court. 

The state government had even conceded before the high court that fixing the fee was the job of the admission and fee regulatory committee (AFRC) headed by a retired high court judge. The state had erroneously fixed the fee for the 2016-2019 block period even after the job was completed by the AFRC. 

When there was pressure on the AFRC to review and raise the fee structure that was already decided by it for the block period, the committee refused to take a relook at its decision. The HC allowed the students to pay half of the fees and continue their studies. SC junks med colleges’ plea on retaining fee fixed by T govt Hyderabad : The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain petitions filed by four private medical colleges of Telangana seeking retention of the exorbitant PG medical fees fixed by the state government. 

A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and AS Bopanna dismissed the pleas at the threshold stage itself. When counsel for the four colleges requested the bench to permit them to withdraw their petitions so that they could file a review petition before the Telangana HC, the bench dismissed all the four pleas as withdrawn. The HC had struck down GOs (Nos. 41 and 43) issued fixing high fees for PG medical courses.

B’luru family flying to US spends ₹8L, gets a raw deal

B’luru family flying to US spends ₹8L, gets a raw deal 

Bengaluru : May 6 was a ‘dream come true’ day for Karthik, an IT professional and his family in Bengaluru’s Electronics City as they were relocating to the US.

 He paid Rs 8 lakh for business class tickets on Emirates airlines to transport the maximum luggage and travel with his wife Jaya, and two kids. But little did they realise that it would turn out to be an unpleasant experience at every step. 

The 39-year-old had joined an IT company in the US in February. After finding a home in Princeton, New Jersey, he returned to Bengaluru on April 28 to take his family there. “We had 16 bags and were travelling with our toddler and infant. I had informed the airline’s customer care about the purpose of our travel and the specific need for children seats for the chauffeur cab service,” said Karthik. TNN

HC: Minor can’t risk life giving liver to dad

HC: Minor can’t risk life giving liver to dad

 Rosy.Sequeira@timesgroup.com 

Mumbai : Observing that a minor’s life cannot be endangered, Bombay high court on Friday refused to allow a 16-year-old to donate a part of her liver to her father who is critically unwell in a Parel hospital. 

“We are concerned about the minor and are not inclined to grant relief,” said a vacation bench of Justices Anil Menon and Nitin Borkar. Her petition challenged the May 11 order of the state authorisation committee headed by the director, Directorate of Medical Education and Research —the appropriate authority under The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994—rejecting her application to grant permission for the transplant. 

The girl had filed the petition stating father is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis decompensated and advised liver transplant. The hospital committee was not accepting her application for organ donation.

SC rejects plea for postponement of NEET-PG 2022-23

SC rejects plea for postponement of NEET-PG 2022-23

 Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com 

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday refused further postponement of NEET-PG, slated for May 21 for admission to PG medical courses, saying any further delay in holding the test would lead to lack of availability of full strength of resident doctors in hospitals impeding patient care facilities.

 A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant said NEET-PG 2022-23, which was earlier scheduled to be held on March 12, has already been postponed to May 21 because of the pandemiccaused delay in exam and admissions to PG medical courses through NEET-PG 2021-22. It agreed with additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati that postponing the examination further could have debilitating cascading effect on patient care as well as next examinations which would be held in January 2023 as per the schedule laid down by the apex court in Ashish Ranjan case in 2016. “All preparations regarding NEET-PG Examination have been made. 

The National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences has already booked online test centres and is going to issue admit cards to the candidates soon. Any delay in the exam will be detrimental to the larger public and national interest,” Bhati said. › Fewer resident docs, P 5 ‘Further delay in exam will lead to fewer resident docs’ Appearing for candidates favouring postponement of NEET-PG, senior advocates Rakesh Khanna, Anand Grover and P Wilson complemented each other in giving variety of reasons, including helping the doctors who were underprepared because of Covid duty, to seek postponement of examination by eight weeks. 

Bhati said that more than 2 lakh MBBS doctors have already registered for the examination, the highest number in the last four years of NEETPG. She said that a majority, who had also worked hard during the pandemic, have registered and prepared for the examination and there should not be any postponement of the examination which would cause harassment to them. Bhati said any further delay in NEETPG 2022 will lead to fewer number of resident doctors (40,000) in hospitals as there are supposed to be three batches of doctors who are studying PG courses and are available for patient care and treatment in hospitals.

SC: Can’t put off NEET-PG again

SC: Can’t put off NEET-PG again 

New Delhi : The SC on Friday refused further postponement of NEET-PG, slated for May 21 for admission to PG medical courses, saying any further delay in holding the test would lead to lack of availability of full str ength of resident doctors in hospitals, impeding patient care facilities. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant said NEET-PG 2022-23, which was earlier scheduled to be held on March 12, has already been postponed to May 21 because of the delay in examination and admissions to PG medical courses through NEETPG 2021-22. TN

BSc intake: Students will have to wait till June

BSc intake: Students will have to wait till June

 Ahmedabad : Class 12 science students, whose results were announced on Thursday, will have to wait till June for admissions to BSc courses as the Gujarat University has not yet selected the agency to execute the admission process. The university hires a private agency to conduct the online admission process for 35 affiliated science colleges. Around 14,000 BSc seats are available this year. The university has just begun the process of issuing a tender to select the agency. “The process is likely to take a month. The admission will only begin after that,” sources said. TNN

Finding curry ‘too salty’, man tonsures wife’s head in Vatva

Finding curry ‘too salty’, man tonsures wife’s head in Vatva 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad : 14.05.2022

 A Vatva man forcibly shaved the head of his 28-year-old wife and assaulted her after accusing her of adding extra salt to his food. The incident so terrified Rizvana Shaikh, a resident of Insaniyatnagar flats, that she gathered the courage to approach the police three days later.

 Filing a complaint against her husband with Vatva police on Wednesday, she said that she got married to Imran, 29, eight years ago. “He is a mason who works as a casual labourer to earn a living. On May 8, around 2pm, Imran came home for lunch. I gave him chapatis and curry. He did not like the taste and began abusing me for adding extra salt to the food. 

Though I told him that I would make something else, he continued to abuse me verbally,” she told police. Rizvana, allegedly, asked him not to abuse her over such a petty issue. “This enraged him and he got a stick and began hitting me. I threatened to call the police if he did not stop. Hearing this, he looked around and grabbed a razor. Before I could understand what was happening, he held me by force, pulled my hair and began shaving my head mercilessly.

 All my pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears,” she told police. Rizvana claimed that Imran released her only after shaving her entire head. “My screams brought the neighbours rushing to the house. They told me to go to the police but I was so frightened and traumatized that I managed to do so only after three days,” she said. The police have filed a complaint of causing hurt, uttering abusive words and criminal intimidation against Imran.