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Postpone NEET PG 2022: Doctors threaten to surrender Medical Degrees, write to President

Barsha MisraWritten by Barsha Misra Published On 2022-04-19T09:30:05+05:30  |  Updated On 19 April 2022 9:30 AM IST
Postpone NEET PG 2022: Doctors threaten to surrender Medical Degrees, write to President
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New Delhi: Referring to the insufficient gap between the NEET PG 2021 counselling and the NEET PG 2022 date, the aspirants for the PG medical entrance test have written to the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind and sought deferment of the examination by at least two months.

Pointing out the rigid stand of the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the National Board of Examinations (NBE) in this issue, the aspirants have also threatened to surrender their medical degrees to the Government at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan if the exam, which is scheduled on May 21, does not get postponed.

"We're reaching out to you because there's no one else to listen to our voices sir. If the exam happens on May 21, then we 1000 of doctors have no choice but to surrender our prestigious medical degrees to Government of India at Rashtrapathi Bhavan, out of disappointment, mental agony and because of the innumerable loopholes in the examination and counselling procedures by the NBE and NMC. This is already creating a mental harassment in our mind which is forcing us to take fatal steps seeing at the cost of our drowning careers," the doctors wrote in their letter directed to the President.

"Now whatever happens to our lives, any danger because of any extremely decisions out of depression and helplessness, the sole responsibility should be taken by the NMC chairman Dr. Suresh Chandra Sharma and other officials of NMC, NBE director Dr Minu Bajpai, MCC, Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi ji, Health Minister Shri Mansukh Mandaviya ji and YOU too sir," the letter added.

NEET PG 2022, which is the centralized common entrance test for admission to PG medical courses across India, was earlier scheduled on March 12. However, pointing out that the date was clashing with NEET PG counselling 2021 dates, the doctors had approached the Union Health Ministry seeking postponement. In fact they had moved to the Apex Court as well. Before the top court could take a call on the matter, the Union Health Ministry itself came to the aid of the students and postponed the exam by 6-8 months. Consequently, NBE rescheduled the exam on May 21.

Also Read: NEET PG 2022 to be held on 21st May, Check out full NBE schedule

However, the doctors are not so happy with this date as well and they have cited the ongoing counselling for NEET PG 2021 as the reason. Referring to the fact how Covid-19 has changed the fate of the world, the doctors reminded in their letter to the President how the Frontline workers fought bravely including the young medical interns and students.

"During the second wave the Government of India has announced the deferment of the NEET PG 2021 exam for 4 months sir. In that process many young doctors served the country. There are 5000 intern doctors who are in eligible to appear the examination because they served during the pandemic," the doctors pointed out.

They also referred to the delayed counselling of NEET PG 2021 and stated in their letter, "As per the policy of NMC there needs to be sufficient gap between counselling of one session and next examination. But this year the all India counselling will over by 3rd May, 2022 and State counselling will start afterwards which might go till mid or may end. The examination is scheduled on 21st May, just few days after completion of All India counselling. This stands unfair. NMC is adamant in not postponing the exam as they want to start the session by August. They can still do so even if the exam is postponed till June July without affecting academic session of 2022."

Stating that they have already approached relevant authorities including NMC and NBE and they are incapable to fight in court every month, the doctors also pointed out that those aspirants who are attending the counselling are not sure if they would get a seat of not.

"Nor we are in the state to give examination in next 10 days when the counselling may get over and we are not even allowed to register even after counselling ends just before few days of examination. Also many state counselling is happening physically. We are in a dilemma with if we should attend counselling or prepare for exam because of this insufficient time gap. Also counseling schedule was changed nearly 7 times by MCC this year, also mop up round was cancelled both at all India and state level. How could we study amongst these uncertainties created by these exam bodies," asked the doctors.

#NEETPG2022 @PMOIndia @ndtv @aajtak @ABPNews @TOIIndiaNews @htTweets @HarshBisaria @DRChinmayee1 @ZeeNews @nsui @ABVPVoice @TimesNow @mansukhmandviya @ShashiTharoor pic.twitter.com/VH8v4Q6AUm

— 𝔻𝕣.𝕄𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕒 (@Monalis32483654) April 18, 2022
They also referred to the previous postponement order by the Union Health Ministry and pointed out that at that time the Ministry had asked NBE to give 6-8 week gap between counselling and exam. However, "
due to incompetency of MCC to complete counselling on time, we again landed in the same situation. NEET PG exam is conducted yearly once and around 1.5 lakhs doctors appear for the exam, it is evident that we will be losing our precious one year of career," read the letter.

Questioning why the students should suffer so that NBE and NMC does not face financial loss, the doctors stated, "We chose this profession to serve our country and people, little did we know that we will be harassed by exam bodies like this."

During the Second wave of COVID, the young doctors studying in the final year of MBBS had left their studies to save lives as front-line warriors

Today,the same Doctors are asking to postpone the #NEETPG2022 exam by 1.5-2 months to prepare for the exam

Dear PM, you must listen!

— Srinivas BV (@srinivasiyc) April 17, 2022
"There is no one showing empathy or compassion for the covid warriors in the time of urgency. We are being continuously harassed mentally by NMC (National Medical Commission) and NBE (National Board of Examinations) because of their mismanagement. We are not at fault at any of time but because of the chaotic bodies like NMC and NBE, we are facing all these consequences," the letter mentioned.
Describing the president as the "last hope", the doctors urged him to intervene and postpone the exam by at least 2 months and "prevent devastating consequences of self destruction."
Also Read: NEET PG 2022 Postponed by 6-8 weeks
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Barsha Misra
Barsha Misra

Barsha completed her Master's in English from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal in 2018. Having a knack for Journalism she joined Medical Dialogues back in 2020. She mainly covers news about medico legal cases, NMC/DCI updates, medical education issues including the latest updates about medical and dental colleges in India. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.

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