SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Sept 7: The Jharkhand government has started the exercise for filling up the vacant posts of senior residents (SR) and tutors in its five medical colleges. In this regard, the state government has called for walk-in interviews for the 100 posts of Senior Residents (66) and tutors (34) on September 16 at RCH campus, Namkum at 11 am.
As per the notification issued by deputy secretary Alok Trivedi, among 100 posts, the highest seats have been fixed for anaesthesia (16) followed by radiotherapy (15), biochemistry (11), physiology and physical medicine and rehabilitation (10) each.
Moreover, SR/ tutors are being appointed for fixed tenure of three years and on honorarium of Rs 75,000 per month. “Those who have already given services at medical college as senior resident/tutor would not be eligible for the post again,” said the vacancy notification.
As per official record of state health department, the medical education wing not only set up three medical colleges Phulo Jhano Medical College Hospital Dumka, Sheikh Bhikhari Medical College Hospital Hazaribagh , Mednirai Medical College Hospital Palamu but also the two old colleges Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College Hospital (MGMMCH) Jamshedpur and Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College Hospital (SNMMCH) Dhanbad are reeling under acute shortage of Senior Residents and tutors in different departments of clinical and non-clinical against sanctioned posts.
Not to speak of other colleges, even at SNMMCH Dhanbad there are sanctioned posts of 72 senior residents but only 24 are working. College sources said government has deployed 22 senior residents recently and they would join soon.
A senior professor of SNMMCH said that due to deficiencies of teachers and doctors National Medical Commission (NMC) has pegged its MBBS seats at 50 while other four medical colleges including three new institution, which came up in 2019, have 100 MBBS seats.
In 2013 the then Medical Commission of India (MCI) had increased additional 50 MBBS seats (total 100) to PatliputraMedical College Hospital ( now it is called SNMMCH) but three years later reduced 50 MBBS seats due to deficiencies of teachers/ doctors and infrastructure.
