Govt to consider grading of GMCs’ doctors for choice transfers

By Vikas Vaidya

With a view to bring transparency in transfers of doctors working in Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) in Maharashtra, Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has decided to consider the grading of doctors for choice transfers. This is probably for the first time in the country that such a decision would be implemented.
Till now doctors transferred and most of them got those posting canceled through their various contacts or some never joined the duties at new places. It resulted in services getting hampered. According to sources in Mantralaya these transfers have become headache for the ministries. To find the way out of it, Medical Education department has come up with the solution of providing grading to doctors.
Girish Mahajan, Minister of Medical Education told ‘The Hitavada’, “To get the gradation, doctors will have to upload their profile details on department’s website. A, B, C, D gradation will be given as per the details of individual doctors uploaded. Medical Education department will formulate the parameters on the basis of which the grades will be given to doctors. Contribution in research, papers written, publication in various national and international journals, how much work doctors have done, all these things will be considered.”
Doctors will compete with each other as per their performance. On the basis of performance, doctors will get grades A, B, C, D. Grade A and B will be eligible for choice transfers while doctors getting grades C and D will have no alternative than to join wherever they get posting.
“Apart from the details uploaded by doctors themselves, report from Dean also will assume importance. If dean does any act of favoritism and recommend the transfer of eligible person somewhere else then the doctor will have a chance to make an appeal which will be heard seriously and action would be taken,” Mahajan made it clear.

Deans committee to take a call for equipment purchase

Because of complications created after Haffkine Biopharmaceutical Corporation Limited, empowered to do the purchase, state GMCs could not buy equipment, drugs for the last eight months. This has resulted in pendency of equipment purchase worth Rs 500 crore including that are to be done from the donation given by Sai Sansthan of Shirdi. Now, Medical Education department found out the solution through which it would be empowering Deans committee that would do the purchase. The request has been made to Shirdi Sansthan to extend the term to spend money donated by them as after passage of 8 months State did not purchase the equipment out of the donated money. Shirdi Sansthan had donated Rs 71 crore for equipment purchase to five GMCs including Nagpur (GMCH and IGGMCH), Aurangabad, Yavatmal and Chandrapur.

Tata Trusts provide implants

The surgeries planned out of Atal Mahaarogya Shibir held at Nagpur three months ago had come to the halt due to non-availability of implants. ‘The Hitavada’ had brought it to the notice of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who swung into action. Medical Education Ministry pursued the matter with Tata Trusts who agreed to provide 500 implants. Now pending surgeries would get momentum soon.

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