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Minister appeals to doctors to call off stir

HYDERABAD: Medical Education Minister Galla Aruna Kumari has appealed to agitating doctors and staff of Government Medical College at Anantapur to call off the stir. Their apprehensions about the legislation to convert the institution into a semi-autonomous body were misplaced, she said.

She told a news conference here on Saturday that the Bill to turn this college, Government Dental College at Vijayawada and the Rajiv Institute of Medical Sciences at Srikakulam, Ongole. Adilabad and Kadapa into semi-autonomous institutions was introduced in the Assembly to attract doctors into Government service. Semi-autonomous status for the colleges enabled them to get Central funding which could be used to pay higher salaries to doctors and staff, she said.

The Minister assured that the functioning of the colleges would remain unchanged in the new setup. She asked the agitators not to nurse fears about their service being affected and the college privatised.

The admissions of students and recruitment of doctors would continue to be monitored by the NTR University of Health Sciences. The assets of the colleges would also continue in Government sector.

Ms. Kumari also denied that the administration of colleges would be separated. There was no question of withdrawing the semi-autonomous status to the colleges, she said and expressed confidence that the new system would be implemented successfully.

Meanwhile, the AP Junior Doctors Association in a press release questioned Government’s logic in making one year’s rural service mandatory after MBBS study. It said the move would not serve any purpose in improving healthcare. What was required was qualitative improvement in medical education.

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