Health Bulletin 15/February/2022

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NEET PG 2022 candidates move Supreme Court seeking clarity on EWS criteria

Seeking clarity on the applicability of EWS criteria in PG medical admissions for the academic year 2022-23, NEET PG 2022 candidates have moved the Supreme Court of India.

The petitioner doctors have sought directions to the Centre to specify in the NEET PG 2022 Information Bulletin that the EWS criteria for session 2022-23 would be decided in terms of the petitions challenging the amended reservation policy (27 per cent OBC and 10 per cent EWS in the All-India Quota category) in Neil Aurelio Nunes v. Union of India.

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NEET PG 2022 Candidates Move Supreme Court Seeking Clarity On EWS Criteria 

Admission cannot be cancelled without any wrongdoings of students: HC relief to AIIMS MSc Nursing candidates

Reiterating earlier judgments of the High Court and the Supreme Court, a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recently clarified that an academic institute cannot be permitted to cancel admissions after the course had started, if there are no wrongdoings on the part of the students.

Such an observation came from the Delhi HC bench comprising of Justice Prateek Jalan, while it set aside an Office Memorandum (OM) of AIIMS, New Delhi cancelling the admission of few M.Sc. Nursing students two months after their admission on the ground that their B.Sc. nursing results had been published later than the due date.

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Admission Cannot Be Cancelled Without Any Wrongdoings Of Students: HC Relief To AIIMS MSc Nursing Candidates 

LHMC doctors write to Union Health Minister over salary deduction for strike period

The resident doctors of Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) have been denied salary for the period when they were on strike. The resident doctors of the LHMC along with other resident doctors of several hospitals across the country had staged protests for immediate NEET PG counselling in December last year.

The resident doctors have written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya over the non-payment of salary of that period. "Despite assurance that salary will not be deducted for the period of agitation, we were not paid. We have asked hospital administration several times but they declined to release the salary of that period stating that they don't have any written order to pay", said Dr. Rakesh Bagdi, Senior Resident Doctor at the LHMC, while talking to IANS.

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LHMC : Resident Doctors Denied Salary For Strike Period, Write To Mandaviya

Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav Announces Employment To 5000 Doctors At ESIC Hospital Group

 5000 doctors would be employed by the Union Labour and Employment Ministry at the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospitals. The announcement was made by the Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav while attending the 187th meeting of ESIC in Gurugram on Saturday.

He said that there was a huge dearth of doctors and staff at the ESIS hospitals. "Therefore, it was decided that vacancies for appointing 5000 doctors will be filled in this calendar year expeditiously," he said, as per a media report in the Economic Times.

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Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav Announces Employment To 5000 Doctors At ESIC Hospital Group

Drug Alert: CDSCO Flags 27 Formulations As Not Of Standard Quality

In its latest drug safety alert, the apex drug regulatory body, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) flagged 27 medicine batches for failing to qualify for a random drug sample test for the month of January.

These drug samples including Bochem Healthcare's Ferrous Sulphate & Folic Acid Tablets IP, Zee Laboratories' NITZO -2.6 (Controlled Release Tablets of Nitrogylcerin), Skymap Pharmaceuticals' WARZYME Digestive Enzymes (Pepsin & Fungal Diastase Syrup), Ortin Laboratories' Enalapril Maleate Tablets IP 5 mg, Om Biomedic's Pantoprazole Gastro- Resistant Tablets I.P., Terrace Pharmaceutical's Atenolol Tablets IP 50 mg and others are declared as 'Not of Standard Quality'.

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Drug Alert: CDSCO Flags 27 Formulations As Not Of Standard Quality