PG NEET seat matrix not neat on KEA site: Aspirants

PG NEET seat matrix not neat on KEA site: Aspirants 

SruthySusan.Ullas@timesofindia.com 22.11.2024 

Bengaluru : The display format of PG NEET seat matrix on the website of Karnataka Examinations Authority has created confusion among aspirants over the seats available for option entry. The option entry for medical postgraduate seats began on Nov 19 and is open until 4pm on Nov 22. However, when the option entry began, it triggered confusion about the seats available as many colleges displayed streams they did not have.

 “For instance, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, a super-speciality hospital, was showing seats for ENT, obstetrics and gynaecology (OBG). Similarly, other colleges like Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, a paediatric speciality hospital, and Sanjay Gandhi Hospital of Trauma and Orthopaedics, which is a trauma and orthopaedic speciality hospital, were also showing ENT and OBG. How is this possible?” asked a parent, who is also a doctor. 

“A seat matrix was initially released by the directorate of medical education. But when we logged in with the personal ID and passcode, several non-existent seats were shown. I, for instance, opted for surgery in Kidwai. It is now reflected in my preferred list. This is very misleading. Does this seat exist?” asked another student. She added that many of her friends also opted for seats that are not reflected in the original list. The students also raised concerns that fees are not reflected on the website. “There is only one more day for option entry. No fees were mentioned until Thursday evening. In some of the seats, there are two fee categories. What if we opt for one, and the fee falls into the higher category? There was a lack of clarity for close to two days after the option entry began,” she said. 

However, KEA said that all colleges in the option entry show all the courses, irrespective of the streams available in the hospital. “This does not mean that they will be allotted these seats that do not exist in a college. Students can check the streams available with each college and apply accordingly. We will change this 

display in order to avoid any more confusion,” a KEA official pointed out. Need to train surgeons in paediatric orthopaedics Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health will start a new super speciality course MCh (Master of Chirurgiae) in paediatric orthopaedics with a yearly intake of three students from this year. With this, the institute will become the only one in the state to offer this. Its director Sanjay KS said, “Bone and joint problems are one of the commonest causes for outpatient consultations and admissions, which forms a huge health burden in the community. The orthopaedic speciality training is mainly focused on adult issues as the cases of trauma and other diseases are more in the adult community, and the paediatric problems are different. Therefore, there is a need to train the surgeons in the field of paediatric orthopaedics, which will benefit society at large in the long term.”