Hyderabad: Telangana doctors have alleged that the tentative bifurcation list of medical officers shows that school leaving certificates of doctors, nativity documents of their spouses, and status of non-locals were not verified when they were allotted to the state.
A team of 12 Telangana doctors is said to have begun checking the list of 1,200 medical practitioners at the director of health and medical education department on Monday.
The departments were categorised in alphabetical order, beginning with anatomy. Government doctors from each department was called and the papers scrutinised.
Departments till general surgery were checked by late evening.
A senior doctor on condition of anonymity said, “The spouse certificate does not mention the nativity. Where and for how long they studied in Telangana is not shown. Instead the father of the spouse has given the certificate, which casts a doubt on its authenticity.”
A minimum of four years of study in Telangana is mandatory to be categorised as a local. Doctors of Gandhi Hospital said that certificates showing school study till Class 7 in Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar and Nizamabad were not valid.
A senior doctor said, “If these formative years are spent in Telangana, why do they speak in the AP dialect” How do we know if these schools really existed 30 years ago?”
Some doctors claimed they were non-locals who opted for TS. Dr Manish Kumar of the ENT Hospital said, “All these anamolies have been pointed out.
These discrepancies show that verification should have been carried out by the health officers before uploading the list.” The government has taken time till February 28 to make corrections to the list.
Unfair share upsets NIMS junior docs
Junior doctors have alleged that they have lost 64 per cent of the seats in PG courses at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) due to the AP Re-organisation Act. Of the 81 PG seats in Nims, 22 were allotted to TS students, they said.
“This is minority allotment. We are forced to lose 64 per cent of the seats despite the institute being 100 per cent funded by the Telangana stae government,” said Telangana Junior Doctors Association president Dr G. Srinivas.
“The ratio is 60:40 in each grade, but it is not being followed. Our seats are going to AP students,” Dr Srinivas said and demanded that Nims be denotifed from the Presidential order to ensure that TS students benefit.
The junior doctors approached Nims director Dr M. Manohar on the issue.
