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Mandatory hospital posting for PG pass-outs to tackle Covid in UP

Lucknow: To flatten the spiralling Covid curve, the state government on Tuesday ordered compulsory hospital postings for MD, MS and PG diploma pass-outs from state medical colleges, which will immediately kickstart recruitments.

Medical education department officials said, while degree holders would have to serve for a year, diploma holders will be appointed for two years.

Failure to join duty will be a violation of the medical bond signed by medicos, who will cough up a penalty running into lakhs, said officials.

Additional chief secretary, medical education, Dr Rajeesh Dube said, “The state invoked Epidemic Act, 1897, on March 24. Covid-19 cases are on the rise and doctors are needed to provide quality treatment and save lives. In UP, 24 government and 28 private medical colleges are running dedicated Covid facilities. Accordingly, all MD, MS and PG diploma pass outs must serve in hospitals.”

The order covers 1,200 post-graduate doctors who cleared their final exam in institutes, including King George’s Medical University, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and state medical colleges across UP. It also deals with 200 students who obtained their degrees from private medical colleges.

Dube said, principals, directors or vice-chancellors may appoint fresh pass-outs directly for a year against vacant positions of resident doctors in clinical, para-clinical, pathology and microbiology departments.

Where appointments are more than vacant positions, authorities will rely on merit. However, authorities may appropriately relieve doctors if they get selected in DM/MCH programmes.

The order also said, if students passing out from institutes have no positions for senior residents, they may be sent on deputation to newly formed medical colleges in Ayodhya, Basti, Bahraich, Shahjahanpur and Firozabad or institutes like GIMS, Greater Noida, Super Specialty Paediatric Hospital and Post Graduate Education Institute, Noida, with consensus of parents and deputation centre. Directorate of Medical Education, UP, will serve as a bridge.

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