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Rajasthan State hopeful of new session in 5 medical colleges from July 1

after the recommendation made by MCI of disapproving the proposed medical colleges to the Centre, the medical education department stepped up efforts and started preparation to make the proposed medical colleges operational as per the MCI norms.

The MCI had presented the report, which pointed out flaws in these colleges, at the executive committee meeting held in January 13. The new medical colleges, proposed by the state government, would have had a capacity to admit 100 MBBS students each.

In Dungarpur, the inspection team found that there was a 100% `deficiency in faculty as well as resident doctors. The colleges had also not appointed deans and medical superintendents. It was also found that they lacked facilities such as audiometry and speech therapy, central oxygen and central suction systems, and disaster trolleys and crash carts.

After the MCI’s report was out pointing out flaws in the proposed medical colleges, the medical education department swung into action and conducted interviews of faculty for the proposed medical colleges and developing other necessary facilities required in medical colleges as per the MCI norms.

The medical education department conducted interviews in April for recruiting faculties in non-clinical and clinical breaches. The department created posts of professors, associate professor, assistant professor and senior demonstrator.

Now, after completing all the recruitment processes, the medical education department is hopeful that they will get the nod of the Centre for starting five new medical colleges in the state from academic session 2017-18.

Trust deficit at primary health centres

NEW DELHI: The concept of primary health centres became a buzzword recently with the inauguration of mohalla clinics by the AAP-led Delhi government. But it has been in existence across the country for decades.

In Delhi, both the state government and the municipal corporations have been running several of them. But their condition is so bad that people prefer going to busy hospitals.

TOI visited one of such dispensary in Sitaram Bazar, Old Delhi. It wore at deserted look. Running from a tiny room with bare necessities, a doctor and a woman compounder, the centre was opened several decades ago. “People no longer come though the doctor is good and medicines free. The trust in the system has slowly eroded,” said K L Yadav, a local.

Ompal Jain, a senior citizen, said, “Doctors don’t come daily to such clinics. Services are available on three fixed days.”
Another such dispensary that specialises in Unani medicine is being run in Shankar Gali near Aruna Asaf Ali Road. “Corporations will have to modernise these dispensaries if they are to be revived,” said Mohammad Saleem, a local.

While the north corporation runs 15 polyclinics and 34 dispensaries, south and east corporations run eight polyclinics and 26 dispensaries, respectively. “BJP, which has been ruling the corporations for a decade, was quick to point out deficiencies and alleged corruption in the running of the mohalla clinics. But it has failed to answer why it has failed to run its own primary health centres,” said an official.

Dr Rana Mehta, executive director, healthcare at PWC, said a robust primary healthcare system can help in quicker diagnosis and treatment of diseases. “It can also act as a medium to propagate preventive measures among the masses, apart from de-crowding the tertiary and super-specialty hospitals,” he added.

doctors on part-time basis

JAIPUR: Battling against shortage of doctors, health department has decided to rope in doctors on part-time basis. The health department will lure the specialist doctors, who are not government doctors, by paying them Rs 2,000 per two hours of their service in urban primary health centres.
A health department official said that the service would remain available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Officials said that those specialist doctors who have retired from the government service will also be able to apply for the part-time specialist medical officer.
The specialist doctors in gynaecology, paediatrics, medicine, skin, orthopaedics and ENT will be able to get apply for the part time specialist doctors’ post.
The health department has also issued a list of urban primary health centres where specialist doctors are required. The health department has issued a list of 245 primary health centres in urban areas, which are reeling under the shortage of specialist doctors. In Jaipur (I), there are 39 such urban PHCs which require specialist doctors.
In Jaipur (II), there are 20 such urban PHCs. Officials said that in winters, the PHCs remain open from 9am to 1pm and from 4pm to 6pm. In summers, they remain open from 8am to 12 noon and from 5 pm to 7pm.
A health department official said that earlier too, the government had decided to pay a certain amount of money to anaesthesia specialist for a visit as in some first referral units (FRUs), there are gynaecologist but there is no anaesthesia specialist. In that situation, a gynaecologist is unable to perform surgery or cesarean section as there is no anaesthesia specialist.
In such FRUs, an anaesthesia specialist gets Rs1000 to Rs1,500 per visit. The health department is now expanding it to other specialists by paying them Rs2,000 per two hours of service in outpatient department of urban PHCs. Officials claimed that it will help improving healthcare services in urban PHCs by providing specialised healthcare services to the patients.

 The health department has made it mandatory to provide undated registration issued by Rajasthan Medical Council for part time specialist job in urban PHCs.
Source – Toi

More benefit to in service doctors

Light beam replaces blood test during heart surgery

The technology developed by UCF scientist Aristide Dogariu uses an optical fibre to beam light through a patient’s blood and interpret the signals that bounce back. Researchers believe that in some situations it could replace the need for doctors to wait while blood is drawn from a patient and tested.

“I absolutely see the technique having potential in the intensive care setting, where it can be part of saving the lives of critically ill patients with all kinds of other disorders,” said Dr William DeCampli, who is chief of paediatric cardiac surgery at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and a professor at the UCF College of Medicine. DeCampli helped develop the technology and test it during surgery on infants.