MP docs protest govt’s decision to hand over medical colleges to bureaucrats

Doctors said the health education is something serious and should be handled by doctors. 

As per a report published in Times of India, Sagar, the city branch of India Medical Association (IMA), medical teachers association and junior doctors staged a protest against a decision of the Madhya Pradesh government to post bureaucrats over dean of medical colleges in the state. 

Doctors in Sagar gathered near Bundelkhand Medical college and raised slogans opposing the government’s decision. They said the deputy collector of the state administrative services or the officials of the India Administrative Services (IAS) have no understanding of health education and no experience in running medical colleges. 

Sarvesh Jain, secretary of the IMA, Sagar, said, “I wonder how come they – deputy collectors and IAS- become specialists for every department.” 

Talking to the media in Sagar after the demonstration, Jain said, “This is not a college of patwaris or revenue officers, they are medical colleges where education on health, life and death is imparted. This is not a college for recovery of revenue.” 

Jain said in the opinion of doctors, the health education should be handled by the doctors. “This is something serious and let us handle it,” he said. 

In the past, Dr Jain had stirred controversy by raising the issue of implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations to the medical education department. He had said that the recommendations were implemented in all the 55 government departments except medical education and had held the bureaucracy responsible for the same. 

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