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PG medical re-counselling likely

Special Correspondent

Minister visits relay hunger strike camp of PG Aspirants Association

HYDERABAD: The stalemate over the post-graduate medical admissions may be resolved soon with Minister for Medical Education and Health Insurance Galla Aruna Kumari assuring the agitating medical students to examine their plea for re-counselling.

The Minister visited the relay hunger strike camp of Andhra Pradesh PG Aspirants Association on Tuesday. She inaugurated PG Girls Hostel with 11 rooms on the Osmania Medical College campus.

The members represented to her that injustice had been done to local candidates due to the lopsided procedure of PG counselling and improper implementation of G.O. 74. Even after the High Court issued orders in favour of re-counselling, the University of Health Sciences remained indifferent to the issue, they said.

When the students appealed to her that a decision be taken soon to protect their academic year as May 31 was the deadline for finalisation of admissions, Ms. Aruna assured them to examine the G.O., take a legal opinion and bring it to the notice of the Chief Minister.

The Minister conceded the request of principal V. Ashok Kumar for construction of first floor to accommodate more students at a cost of Rs.43 lakh.

Urging the doctors to serve in rural areas, she said the Government, keen to elevate medical services and provide access to the poor, had been upgrading the facilities in the districts .

The Andhra Pradesh Government Doctors' Association also submitted a representation for speedy completion of separation of teaching cadre process to improve standards of medical teaching etc.

Director of Medical Education I.V. Rao said that OMC was rated as the ninth best medical college in the country in terms of standards and facilities.

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