SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Dec 1: After Bokaro General Hospital (BGH) Bokaro, the Central Hospital of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) Dhanbad has become the second hospital in Jharkhand to get permission for launching Diploma of National Board (DNB) course in Jharkhand.
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted permission to the Central Hospital of BCCL for launching the course in 2021-23 sessions on five seats of medicine and surgery departments.
As per official sources of Central Hospital, two seats out of five have been allotted to house doctors while three are for applicants out of the institution. The admission process for the course has started.
DNB is a Post-Graduate Master’s degree same as MD/ MS awarded to the specialist doctors after completion of three years of residency.
A senior doctor of Dhanbad said that permission to Central Hospital for launching DNB course will give new advantages to doctors of Jharkhand. It will be easy for the doctors to get the diploma degrees who miss their postgraduate (PG) opportunity.
“Permission to carry out the DNB course is given only to private district hospitals of the health department and not to a medical college. But now NMC has planned to remove the course from hospitals that are not eligible across the state in phase-out,” said NMC Inspector Dr Ajay Kumar.
A corporate nursing home Asharfi Hospital of Dhanbad had reportedly also applied for launching DNB course in the institution but NMC has yet to take any decision on it.
Sources said that Central Hospital had applied for seats in the gynaecology department too. The NMC team under Dr Pratibha Rai, head of the department, gynaecology, of Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College Hospital (SNMMCH) inspected the hospital but the medical college monitoring body (NMC) granted permission only to two departments; medicine and surgery.
Central Hospital BCCL has services of qualified, expert and experienced faculty members in both departments to cater the requirement of DNB course.
