MBBS pass-outs will struggle to find jobs: HP Doctors demand to reduce retirement age to 58
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Shimla: The Himachal Medical Officers Association(HMOA) and the resident doctors of Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla, have demanded that the retirement age of doctors should be reduced to 58 or 60 years.
The doctors pointed out that for the GDO cadre, the retirement age is 60 years. However, Recently, the retirement age of the super specialty faculty was increased to 65 years.
The retirement age of the faculty in medical colleges in Shimla and Tanda is 62 years, while it's 65 years in other medical colleges.
Dr Pushpender Verma, secretary, HMOA told Medical Dialogues, " Before enhancing the retirement age limit, the authorities should have considered that MBBS pass-outs will struggle to find jobs in the state. We have a cadre strength of around 2,400 doctors. It needs to be at least doubled to accommodate doctors coming out of our medical college. If an individual continues to hold a regular post up to the age of 62 and 65, or even beyond that if he gets an extension in service, then young and eligible doctors working in peripheral hospitals will be deprived of an opportunity to get into a medical college as Assistant Professor."
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