HC reprieve for doctors with super speciality degrees

Updated on: Monday, September 05, 2011

In a relief to doctors holding super speciality degrees, the Bombay High Court has ordered Maharashtra government to appoint them as assistant professors instead of medical officers in hospitals attached to medical colleges run by the state and municipal corporations.
  
The order was passed by a pision bench of Justices B H Marlapalle and Nishita Mhatre which was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by doctors, who have obtained super speciality qualifications including cardiac and paediatric surgery.
  
The doctors had challenged a circular issued on June 9 by the Director of Medical Education and Research (DMER) and Director of Public Health, according to which even those doctors, who have completed their super speciality courses, would be appointed as medical officers in the state-run as well as civic hospitals and rural hospitals for a year.
  
The bench directed the government to first offer the post of assistant professor to the 66 super speciality degree holders and thereafter to the 420 MD and 189 MS degree holders.

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