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Students protest temporary rural posting
Posted on: 19/Jul/2013 10:55:55 AM
Students of three of the city’s government medical colleges protested postings in rural areas. They wore black badges as a mark of their protest. The Centre has proposed MBBS students who want to pursue a post graduate degree get a one year compulsory posting in rural areas. The students, however, want a permanent posting rather than a temporary one.
‘(We) want permanent jobs in rural areas, not temporary postings. Every year, 43,000 medical students pass out of 362 colleges across the country. This will increase to 50,000 in the next 10 years. If these doctors are posted on a temporary basis to rural health facilities such as primary health centres and community health centres, then the government will not find it necessary to appoint doctors on a permanent basis. This will deny permanent employment to doctors… Medical students and house surgeons of Madras Medical College (MMC), Government Stanley Medical College and Government Kilpauk Medical College wore black badges to classes and as well as to hospitals. Government medical college students in Chengalpattu, Salem, Coimbatore, Tiruvarur, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari have also joined the protest’, said ,” said S. Prasanth, Coordinator of the Tamil Nadu Medical Students Association (TNMSA).
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