Rural health services to be hit if doctors go for PG courses: West Bengal Govt tells High Court
With the SAT having ordered that 10 percent of the available MBBS doctors working at the state-run healthcare facilities be allowed to pursue higher studies, the government moved the appeal before the high court.
Kolkata: The West Bengal government today claimed before the Calcutta High Court that 37 rural health centers of the state would have to be closed down if it had to release 10 percent of the MBBS doctors for post-graduate courses as those facilities had only one doctor each.
Opposing the plea, the counsel for MBBS doctors who want to pursue higher studies submitted that there was a huge dearth of specialist doctors at the state-run facilities in West Bengal and that it was for the benefit of the patients that more doctors were allowed to study MD/MS courses.
The doctors' counsel, Pratik Dhar, claimed before a division bench of justices Debasish Kargupta and Sampa Sarkar that the state-run hospitals in West Bengal had only 117 MD/MS doctors against a requirement of 1,700 post-graduate doctors.
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