The Legal Coordination Committee for Government Doctors has alleged that the state government resorted to “impersonation” during the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) inspection of medical colleges. It has rejected such alleged impersonation, and, in a statement, said that though qualified government doctors are available, the government was not ready to conduct promotion consultations in time.
Several government doctors are eligible for promotion from Associate Professor to Professor and from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, the committee statement said. Notably, more than 200 doctors currently working as associate professors in the medical college have completed three years and were eligible to become professors as per NMC rules, but the government is delaying the conduct of promotion counselling. Was. Due to this delay, although qualified doctors were available, doctors were being forced to “rape” during the inspection, making them “scapegoats”, the committee said.
The posts of Professor and Associate Professor are vacant in many government colleges. As per NMC, the shortage of faculty should not exceed 10%. During the NMC inspections, the committee alleged that there was pressure from the Directorate of Medical Education to transfer doctors who were short of doctors from other government medical colleges.
The committee also asked why the government was lax in appointing new directors after the retirement of the director of medical education and director of medical and rural health services. Similarly, the post of dean was vacant in Government Medical College, Villupuram. The committee has demanded to conduct promotion counseling without delay.