They will also not be obligated to serve postings in rural and peripheral hospitals as per the two-year bond period between doctors and the state.
In a major relief to 675 super-specialty and broad-specialty doctors in the state, they will henceforth not be told to serve a post not befitting their qualifications and serve in civic or military hospitals. They will also not be obligated to serve postings in rural and peripheral hospitals as per the two-year bond period between doctors and the state.
A division bench of justice BH Marlapalle and justice Nishita Mhatre on Thursday directed the state government to appoint super-specialists and broad-specialists only as assistant professors for their respective courses or as medical officers in super-specialty hospitals.
The state has also been told to form a high-level committee to monitor the postings of these doctors while serving the bond period. The committee will comprise the directorate of medical education and research, the principal secretary of the medical education department, deans of two state-run medical colleges in Mumbai and a dean of a BMC-run medical college.
As per the rules, super-specialty doctors, who hold degrees like Doctor of Medicine (DM) and Master of Chirurgical (MCh), and broad-specialists, holding post-graduate degrees like Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery, are required to serve two years in state-run, civic or military hospitals after they complete their studies.
The directions came during the hearing of a bunch of petitions filed by these doctors who were told by the BMC to join posts of medical officers for serving their bond period, that too in peripheral civic hospitals in the city.
They had objected to being posted as medical officers, stating that it was against public good since it meant under-utilisation of their knowledge, skills and experience. After completing super-specialty courses, they should not be asked to perform work supposed to be done by ordinary medical graduates.
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