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`Create separate board for recruitment of doctors'

Staff Reporter

Drop appointment through TNPSC, says Doctors' Association for Social Equality

SEEKING JUSTICE: C. Mahendran, State deputy secretary, CPI, addressing a meeting in Tiruchi on Sunday. — Photo: R.Ashok.

TIRUCHI: The Doctors' Association for Social Equality has urged the State Government to create a separate board to recruit doctors.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, its general secretary G. R. Ravindranath said the Government should give up the practice of appointing doctors through the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) as it affected senior doctors.

There were irregularities in written examination as well as in the interview while recruiting doctors through TNPSC.

Doctors should be appointed on the basis of seniority in registration with the Medical Council of India, Tamil Nadu branch.

The Government should regularise the services of doctors appointed on contract basis temporarily during the AIADMK regime and appoint the 1,800 doctors who had been selected through the TNPSC.

The Government must take steps to provide employment to all doctors who were without jobs. The association has demanded 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in education in central institutions.

All post-graduate medical seats in the State should be allocated to doctors who studied in the State and were serving in Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Ravindranath said the Centre should withdraw service tax on doctors since its imposition would affect doctors working in rural areas as well as those running small clinics.

The association said the temporary doctors had not been provided salary for the last three months and urged the Government to take necessary steps in this regard.

Later, the association organised a social justice seminar demanding 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in education in central institutes. Its vice-president Muthukumar presided.

C. Mahendran, State deputy secretary of the Communist Party of India, Dr. Ravindranath, and S. Ramaguru, Head, Department of Orthopaedic, Tirunelveli Medical College, spoke.

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