Centre approves 70 DNB seats in 6 BMC peripheral hospitals
After around a year, the Centre has approved adding 70 DNB seats in 6 BMC peripheral hospitals.
Centre has approved 70 seats for the Diplomate of National Board (DNB) — a three-year specialisation course at six peripheral hospitals of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The mini-medical colleges are expected to create more specialists and ensure timely treatment of patients who are often referred to tertiary-care centres.
“The students will also treat patients as part of their specialisation course like in any other medical college. So, this course is expected to reduce the number of critical patients referred from a peripheral hospital to a tertiary-care centre for treatment and thereby help patients receive life-saving treatment in time,” said Dr Vidya Thakur, superintendent of the 16 BMC peripheral hospitals, as reported by Indian Express.
The process was initiated by the former additional commissioner Suresh Kakani for 6 BMC peripheral hospitals including Rajawadi Hospital, Bhabha Hospital in Kurla and Bandra, VN Desai Hospital, Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital, also known as Shatabdi Hospital, in Kandivali, and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital in Govandi.
The National Board of Examinations (NBE) is responsible for accreditation. “Its officials visited the hospitals and made suggestions, which we carried out following which fresh inspections were done. Only after they were satisfied, accreditation was granted, which was a time-consuming affair,” an official said.
Faculties were hired last year
As many as 150 specialists in medicine, surgery, gynaecology, paediatric, orthopaedic, anaesthesia, radiology and ENT, among others, were appointed with 8-6 years of experience to teach DNB to postgraduate medical students.
“After their appointments, we applied to NBE for approval of seats for the DNB course. Now, as we have got recognition, the course would be initiated as per the selection process of NBE through PG-NEET,” added Vidya Thakur.
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