Assam Govt PG bond implementation and recovery of bond money

Source: Indian Express

The Assam government has initiated legal action to recover Rs 20 lakh each from as many as 244 doctors who had obtained their post-graduate medical degree in 2014 for violating a commitment for serving at least 10 years under the state government, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said in Guwahati on Thursday.

The chief minister also directed the state health and family welfare department to immediately initiate strict legal action against those PG doctors who have violated the terms and conditions of the agreement they had signed at the time of their admission.

Such cases of violation would also be taken up with the Medical Council of India, an official press release quoting the chief minister said.

Gogoi, who took the matter seriously, said these 244 post-graduate doctors had, prior to admission in the state’s medical colleges, committed to serve the state government for 10 years, for default of which they had also agreed to repay Rs 20 lakh each as compensation.

According to the Assam Medical Colleges (Regulations of Admission into PG Course) Rules 2006, a doctor on completion of his/her PG course has to serve under the state government for at least 10 years.

In case of any breach of terms and conditions, defaulting doctors are liable to pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation to the state government on account of expenses borne by it for doctors pursuing the post-graduate course.

“Since the general public visiting government health institutions have been deprived of the services of PG doctors in spite of huge amount of public money invested on them by the state government, the public money would not be allowed to go waste,” chief minister Gogoi said.

“In case of failure to pay the compensation, the government of Assam can file money suit and take any other legal action against the defaulting doctors,” the press release said.

Gogoi on Thursday also directed officials to take steps to prevent such wilful neglect of responsibilities by some doctors and said henceforth all candidates seeking admission to PG courses in medical colleges of the state would have to furnish bank guarantee of sufficient amount so as to safeguard the interest of the people seeking medical care.

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Exit exam for MBBS passouts soon

NEW DELHI: The health ministry is planning an exit exam for MBBS students passing out of government as well as private medical colleges. The move comes in the wake of concerns over the quality of doctors being produced in the country.

Initially, the government intends to create a separate 'all-India chapter' for doctors qualifying the exit exam. Doctors currently get themselves registered with the state chapter of Medical Council of India (MCI) and have to get their registration transferred if they intend to practice in another state. Those clearing the exit exam will be able to practice anywhere in the country.

Eventually, students not passing the exit exam could even be held back from post-graduate studies, an official source privy to the developments told TOI.

The draft proposal prepared by the ministry suggests using the existing Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) as a voluntary exit exam. FMGE, a screening test recognized by the MCI, was introduced in 2002 as a qualifying examination for Indian students holding medical degrees from other countries and intending to practice medicine in India.

The health ministry is now considering using FMGE as a benchmark for all MBBS doctors.

"Initially, we are planning to start with an incentivizing system. Those who qualify this exam will be incentivized with a national registration number under MCI, allowing them to practice anywhere in the country," the official said.

The move will also enable the government to use the exit exam result for ranking colleges.

Government data shows a huge disparity between the average pass marks in government and private colleges, as well as in different states. For instance, the result of All India Post-Graduate Medical Entrance Examination 2015 showed Andhra Pradesh had an average pass percentage of 84.92%, Chandigarh had 73.56% while West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh had 53.58% and 51.56%, respectively. The pass percentage in Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and in foreign institutes was even lower at 46.38%, 37.84% and 31.41%, respectively.

Similarly, AIPGMEE 2014 results showed that based on 50% score as minimum qualifying criteria, 22,802 candidates from government institutions passed the exam, compared to a mere 8,862 candidates from private colleges. From foreign institutions, only 1,188 passed.

"How students fare in all-India PG exams is also an indicator of the quality of doctors being produced," the official said.

The government is also of the view that while there is a need to ramp up capacity for post-graduate doctors to have more specialists, data showed that there was an urgent requirement to monitor the quality of MBBS doctors entering practice.

Data showed that each year, about 100,000 doctors took post-graduate medical examinations across the country. However, only around 25,000 made it and the rest were available for service as MBBS doctors. Estimates show that nearly 100,000 MBBS doctors are available for active service at any given time.