Docs protest decision to post bureaucrats in medical colleges

Docs protest decision to post bureaucrats in medical colleges

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bhopal:28.12.2021

Medical fraternity in Sagar- the city branch of India Medical Association (IMA), medical teachers association and junior doctors protested against a decision of the state government to post bureaucrats over dean of medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh.

Doctors in Sagar assembled near Bundelkhand Medical college (BMC) and raised slogans opposing the government’ decision. They said that the deputy collector of the state administrative services or the officials of the India Administrative Services (IAS) have no expertise to run medical colleges and understanding of health education.

Sarvesh Jain, secretary of the IMA, Sagar and an assistant professor in Bundelkhand medical college said, “I wonder how come they – deputy collectors and IAS- become specialists for every department.”

Talking to the media in Sagar after the demonstration, Jain said, “this is not a college of patwaris or revenue officers, they are medical colleges where education on health, life and death is imparted. This is not a college for recovery of revenue.”

Jain said that in the opinion of doctors, the health education should be handled by the doctors. “This is something serious and let us handle it,” he said.

In the past, Dr Jain had stirred controversy by raising the issue of implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations to the medical education department. He had said that the recommendations were implemented in all the 55 government departments except medical education and had held the bureaucracy responsible for the same.

Doctors in Sagar assembled near Bundelkhand Medical college (BMC) and raised slogans opposing the government’ decision