BJ Medical College gets 157 junior resident docs

BJ Medical College gets 157 junior resident docs

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad: 15.12.2021

BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, on Tuesday appointed 157 junior resident doctors to reduce the burden on resident doctors in their second year of PG medical courses.

“About eight positions lie vacant after the appointment of 157 doctors,” said an official aware of the developments. “Of these, 22 junior doctors have been appointed in the general medicine department and 21 in the general surgery department.” The state health department last week had issued a notification for allowing the recruitment of junior resident doctors at governmentrun medical colleges. The junior doctors are to be paid a fixed monthly salary of Rs 63,000 which is inclusive of all entitlements, the notification says.Among others, 12 junior doctors were appointed in the paediatrics department and 16 in the anaesthesiology department at Civil Hospital on Tuesday.

The resident doctors of Gujarat, who joined the recent nationwide protests over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling, have been demanding medical officers to assist them till the new batch joins.

NEET-PG exams for MD/MS admissions are usually held in January, but due to Covid they were conducted in September. While counselling was to commence on October 25, petitions challenging a central government notification has stalled the process. Senior resident doctors (final-year students from the 2018 batch) were relieved a few months ago. As a result, hospitals have been managing with only two batches, instead of three.