Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 28: Intern doctors at Govt Medical College (GMC), Srinagar today held a protest demonstration within the college campus against the recent move of allocating 50% of PG seats in J&K to All India Quota.
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The doctors said that the move will make the entire healthcare system, which is termed as the best in the country, collapse and will also result in unemployment which is already at its peak.
Scores of these doctors assembled in the college and were seen raising slogans in favour of their demands while stating that the move is going to be disastrous for the overall patient care as well as the doctor-patient ratio.
The doctors said that earlier, all the seats used to be available for J&K, however, now 50% of seats will go to the All India Quota. “Which means that half of the PG seats in J&K will not remain available for the local doctors,” said Dr Tajamul Islam, one of the intern doctors.
He also said that as per the move, at the deemed Universities such as SKIMS, 100% of seats there will remain available to the All India Quota. “It means that just a minuscule number of local doctors will get an admission there which will wreak havoc on the healthcare system of the UT,” he said.
The doctors said that the move will create problems as the doctors who will come here will move back after doing their PGs and will subsequently leave a void in the healthcare system.
“Also, there being a language barrier, they won’t be able to communicate with the patients which will put the entire service in the long run on a freeze,” the doctors said.
They demanded that the order issued by the NBE needs to be rolled back immediately. “While our healthcare is best in the country, the move will make the entire system collapse,” they said.
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