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New Indian Express
15-05-2025
- Health
- New Indian Express
Adequate faculty in medical colleges, NMC notice won't affect admissions: Health Minister Ma Subramanian
CHENNAI: After the National Medical Commission (NMC) issued show-cause notices to 35 of 36 government medical colleges in the state, citing various shortcomings, including inadequate faculty strength, Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Wednesday indicated that the notices will not affect student admissions in these colleges. Addressing the reporters, the minister said 26 colleges have already sent their replies with appropriate explanation to the NMC last Friday, and three others will send their replies on Wednesday. The director of medical education and research has also issued guidelines for the remaining colleges to submit their explanations by next Friday. Although such notices citing certain discrepancies are issued to a few colleges every year, it raised concerns this year since almost all government medical colleges in the state had received notices. On the alleged shortage of doctors, Subramanian said all vacancies in medical colleges were filled up as per the sanctioned strength. There were 415 vacancies, of which 328 were filled initially, and the remaining 87 were filled on Tuesday. A few months ago, 2,246 doctor vacancies were filled by the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MSRB), keeping in mind the vacancies that were going to arise, he said. Not only those with MBBS qualification, but doctors who completed their PG were also selected in the recruitment process. The minister further said that steps are being taken to fill vacant posts of associate professors and professors, through promotion counselling.
The Hindu
03-05-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
‘Around 8,000 of 11,720 candidates cleared exam held last month for 48 dentist posts'
Giving an example to demonstrate the readiness among doctors to take up government jobs in Tamil Nadu, Health Minister Ma. Subramanian on Saturday said that 11,720 candidates wrote the Medical Services Recruitment Board exam held last month for 48 dentist posts. At the inauguration of 'Miracle '25', a national-level medical education conference for UG students organised by Madras Medical College, he said with nearly 8,000 candidates clearing the exam, recruiting 48 of them was a challenging task for the MRB. MRB had conducted an examination on April 24 for the posts of Assistant Surgeon (Dental). The Minister noted that recently, 24,000 candidates appeared for the MRB examination held to recruit 2,642 doctors. In the last four years, appointment orders were issued to 25,295 persons - doctors, nurses and allied health staff - through MRB. Noting that recruitments in the Health department were conducted in a transparent manner, Mr. Subramanian told the students participating in the conference that in the future, they can take up government jobs in the department keeping merit in mind with no need for recommendation or to approach anyone. In the last four years, transfer counselling was held in a transparent manner for 42,718 posts, he added. Health Secretary P. Senthilkumar, Mission Director of National Health Mission, Tamil Nadu, Arun Thamburaj and Additional Director of Medical Education E. Theranirajan were present.
