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NEET PG 2023 to be held as per schedule
While responding to the requests of students across the country for postponing the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) examination, 2023, the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed the Lok Sabha that since the exam date was announced around five months ago, the students should not face any problem to prepare for the exam.
Further, the Health Minister pointed out that in order to ensure that none of the students across India suffers due to eligibility criteria, the Government has extended the cut-off date for completing MBBS Internship till August 11, 2023.
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Demand For NEET PG Postponement Reverberates In Parliament
UG, PG seats to be levelled in next four years, announces Health Minister
The Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has recently announced that within the next four years, India will have equal number of undergraduate and postgraduate medical seats.
This means that there will be one PG medical seat available for all the MBBS graduate in India and all the doctors will be able to pursue higher studies.
Announcement from the Union Health Minister has come while he was addressing the 13th annual conference of the Global Association of Physicians of Indian origin (GAPIO) in Gandhinagar, adds PTI.
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1 PG Medical Seat For Every MBBS Graduate In Next 4 Years: Health Minister
Notice issued to 109 contractual doctors in Chhattisgarh to join work within 2 days
109 MBBS doctors posted as Contract Medical Officers across government hospitals have been issued notice by the Health and Family Welfare Department in Chhattisgarh to join work within 2 days.
Madras High Court directs infertility treatment centre to pay ₹40 lakh to woman for botched up surgery resulting in punctured colon
In a recent order, the Madras High Court bench has directed a private infertility hospital in Chennai to pay Rs 40 lakh compensation to a Sri Lankan Tamil woman, who faced perforation of sigmoid colon during a laparoscopic surgery at the hospital.
"This Court directs the defendants to pay jointly and severally a sum of Rs.40,00,000/- (Rupees Forty Lakhs only) as compensation to the plaintiff with interest at the rate of 12% per annum from the date of plaint till the date of decree and at the rate of 6% per annum from the date of decree till the date of realisation," ordered the HC bench Justice G. Chandrasekharan.
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