Assam CM Tarun Gogoi orders recovery of Rs 20 lakh each from 244 PG doctors for not serving state govt

tarun gogoi, assam cm, journalist award, assam budget

The Assam government has initiated legal action to recover Rs 20 lakh each from as many as 244 doctors who had obtained their post-graduate medical degree in 2014 for violating a commitment for serving at least 10 years under the state government, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said in Guwahati on Thursday.

The chief minister also directed the state health and family welfare department to immediately initiate strict legal action against those PG doctors who have violated the terms and conditions of the agreement they had signed at the time of their admission.
Such cases of violation would also be taken up with the Medical Council of India, an official press release quoting the chief minister said.

Gogoi, who took the matter seriously, said these 244 post-graduate doctors had, prior to admission in the state’s medical colleges, committed to serve the state government for 10 years, for default of which they had also agreed to repay Rs 20 lakh each as compensation. 

According to the Assam Medical Colleges (Regulations of Admission into PG Course) Rules 2006, a doctor on completion of his/her PG course has to serve under the state government for at least 10 years. In case of any breach of terms and conditions, defaulting doctors are liable to pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation to the state government on account of expenses borne by it for doctors pursuing the post-graduate course. 

“Since the general public visiting government health institutions have been deprived of the services of PG doctors in spite of huge amount of public money invested on them by the state government, the public money would not be allowed to go waste,” chief minister Gogoi said. “In case of failure to pay the compensation, the government of Assam can file money suit and take any other legal action against the defaulting doctors,” the press release said. Gogoi on Thursday also directed officials to take steps to prevent such wilful neglect of responsibilities by some doctors and said henceforth all candidates seeking admission to PG courses in medical colleges of the state would have to furnish bank guarantee of sufficient amount so as to safeguard the interest of the people seeking medical care.

Popular posts from this blog

PG Doctors of India must work not more than 48 Hr/week: SC

Image
As per the directives of the Honourable Supreme Court in its judgment dated,25.9.87, in writ petition No. 348-352 of 1985, all the State Governments, Medical Institutions and Universities are required to amend their rules and regulations to introduce a uniform residency scheme by 1993 “A uniform practice has to be evolved so that the discipline would be introduced. We accordingly allow the present arrangement to continue for a period of five yearsI.e. upto 1992 inclusive. For admission beginning from 1993 there would be only onepattern. All Universities and institutions shall take timely steps to bring about such amendments as may be necessary to bring statutes, regulations, and rules obtaining in their respective institutions in accord with this direction before the end of 1991 so that there may be no scope for raising of any dispute in regard to the matter.The uniform pattern has to be implemented for 1993. It is proper that one uniform system is brought into vogue throughout...
Read more

Sarita murder case: Details of the police version

A junior doctor was today apprehended in the Sarita Toshniwal murder case, making it the second arrest in this connection.  Dipmoni Saikia, 28, a second-year post-graduate student in the gynaecology department of Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh, where Sarita was a first-year post-graduate student, was picked up for interrogation last evening. He hails from Hojgaon near Nagaon town. Sarita was found dead in the doctor’s cabin of the intensive care unit of the department by a nurse around 8am on Friday. Her body was covered with a blanket and lying on the bed inside the cabin. On the day of the murder, Dibrugarh police had arrested a ward boy of the department, Kero Mech, after he reportedly confessed to the crime. Mech hails from Siringhola village of Dibrugarh district. Dibrugarh chief judicial magistrate Kanchan Newar today remanded Dipmoni in seven days’ police custody. The case (number 370/14 under Sections 302/34/120 of the IPC) was registered o...
Read more