GO on in-service quota for govt hosp docs sparks row among med students

GO on in-service quota for govt hosp docs sparks row among med students

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad:  21.11.2021

A day after the Kalolji Narayana Rao university of Health Sciences issued GO-155, announcing in-service quota in NEET-PG for doctors working at government hospitasl, the announcement became a bone of contention for two sets of medical students.

While MBBS students (junior and senior residents) at government hospitals who have been working in rural and tribal areas for two years stand to benefit from move, they are demanding the quota be increased. As per the latest GO, 20 per cent reservation for clinical and 30 per cent for non-clinical seats has been announced. This is however a reduction from the earlier GO-27 — issued in 2017 — which had 30 per cent reservation for clinical and 50 per cent for non-clinical seats.

Irked with the reduction, public health doctors demanded an increase in quota and said they will protest. On the other hand Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA) demanded that the quota be done away with.“Public health doctors and contract doctors as well as all other government doctors will hand over mass leave papers on Monday to DMHOs in all districts and would fight in stages till the cancellation of GO-155 and revival of GO 27 is done,” said Dr Katti Janardhan, founding president Telangana Public Health Doctors Association.

Meanwhile, TJUDA demanded that GO not be implemented. “Giving special reservation quota to these candidates will be a bias towards regular candidates who strive for years together to get a competitive seat,” TJUDA said.