PHC medical seats to be reduced
Posted on: 20/Feb/2018 11:08:08 AM
PHCs, or Primary Health Centres, which offer incentives to candidates in service who are seeking post graduate medical seats may be reduced. A six-member committee under Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation is likely to submit its report to the health secretary on Tuesday.
Speaking about this, a senior official at the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation said, We used hybrid methods to work out difficult and remote areas based on terrain, reach and kind of work.
This year, the state will add 101 PG seats across 14 government medical colleges, taking the total seats to 1,585 and give 50% to all-India quota. In 2017, the process, caught in a battle at the Madras high court, was stalled twice and admissions had to be cancelled. The state had given 50% seats to all-India quota and the reserved half of the rest to government doctors.
Says a senior health department official, Barring a few positions in select medical college hospitals no medical college will make it. We don�t want MBBS students or diploma holders to work in medical colleges. If we have PGs it will keep the institution better placed when seeking additional seats from MCI. Also, if these people leave the college after they get admissions we have to fill in the seats.
