Health Bulletin 13/ December/ 2024 - Video

India has altogether 73,157 postgraduate medical seats available in the country, the Union Minister of State for Health Smt. Anupriya Patel informed the Lok Sabha recently.

The Union MoS Health provided the details of the available MBBS and postgraduate medical seats in India while responding to the queries raised by Parliament member Shri Ve Vaithilingam.

The concerned State Governments, and not the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI), now the National Medical Commission (NMC) can take the necessary initiative to provide reservations for the in-service candidates for admission to PG medical courses by executing bonds, the Union Minister of State for Health Smt. Anupriya Patel informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

While responding to the queries raised by Parliament member Dr. Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade, Minister Patel informed that even though previously the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 had provisions to grant incentive marks to doctors working in remote and difficult areas, the Constitution bench of the Supreme Court held in 2020 that the State has the legislative competence to provide for a separate source of entry for in-service candidates seeking admission to postgraduate degree/diploma courses in exercise of powers under Entry 25, List III.

A senior resident doctor at Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal has been booked on charges of rape and attempted murder. He has been absconding since a formal complaint was filed against him.

According to an IANS report, a senior official of Murshidabad district police confirmed on Tuesday that a formal complaint has been lodged against the accused senior resident doctor at Baharampur Police Station in the district, following which, the cops have started investigating the matter.

Considering a petition on MBBS admission, the Supreme Court recently summoned the director general of the Centre's Directorate General of Health Services. The apex court then flagged the ''casual approach'' over the grant of admission to an MBBS aspirant from the disability category.

The bench was hearing a petition challenging a September 23 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which dismissed a plea filed by the aspirant for admission to the MBBS course for the 2024-25 academic session.