J&K Chief Secy reviews infrastructure, services across medical colleges
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo on Sunday had a detailed review of the critical infrastructure and services being provided across the associated hospitals of medical colleges, besides assessing the status of faculty and courses offered in each of these colleges.
The Chief Secretary, while chairing a meeting held in this regard, analysed the progress achieved in introduction of specialisation courses (MD/MS, DM/MCH and DNB), increase of 50 MBBS seats in new medical colleges, status of faculty recruitment and strengthening of the tertiary care services in all the newly established GMCs.
Besides Secretary, H&ME, the meeting was attended by Director, SKIMS; principals of GMC, Srinagar, Jammu, Anantnag, Baramulla, Kathua, Doda, Rajouri, Udhampur, Handwara; MD, JKMSCL; Director, Coordination (Medical Colleges); Director Health, Jammu/Kashmir, besides other concerned officers.
Dulloo impressed upon the department to continuously endeavour to upgrade their services, especially the tertiary care services like critical care, emergency, neurological, cardiac care, cancer care, kidney care and radiology services by these health institutions.
He impressed upon the principals of the medical colleges to create a timeline on the basis of infrastructure and manpower available to introduce such high-end services in these colleges. He advised them to dovetail their available resources to meet such requirements along with taking the much needed assistance from SKIMS and GMCs at Jammu and Srinagar.
He stressed on taking swift measures to augment services in the identified critical care services to save lives of the patients by making timely interventions. He impressed upon them to receive the requisite handholding from the SKIMS or GMC Jammu/Srinagar with respect to training of staff besides acquiring the small equipment, necessary consumables to deal with such exigencies.
Dulloo further enquired from each principal of the medical college about the new specialised courses like MD/MS, DM/MCH, and DNB successfully introduced in their colleges along with the applications made to NMC this year. He called for serious perusal of these applications as per set norms to secure the NMC approval before the next academic year.
As far as the introduction of additional 50 MBBS seats are concerned, the Chief Secretary stressed on securing the requisite faculty. He urged them to fill all the entry level posts of assistant professors besides taking steps like hiring of staff on academic arrangement where there are no feasible candidates available to fill higher positions of professors and associate professors through conduction of DPCs.
Secretary, H&ME, Dr Syed Abid Rashid Shah, while throwing light on the status and functioning of these colleges, informed the meeting that a total of 391 applications have been submitted to enhance the seat availability for MD/MS, DM/MCH and DNB programmes across various medical colleges. He elaborated that these included 234 applications for enhancing MD/MS courses, 129 DNB and 28 applications for introduction of DM/MCH courses across the GMCs.
He said the approval has been received for two DM Neurology seats and 1 DNB seat each in cardiology, plastic & reconstructive surgery by GMC Srinagar. He added that GMC Handwara has received approvals for 2 DNB seats in general surgery and 5 DNB seats in general medicine.
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