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This is an archive article published on February 12, 2010
Adopt places,Minister tells city medical colleges
Medical Education Minister Dr Vijay Kumar Gavit on Thursday called upon the government and private medical colleges to adopt places in the district and send doctors there to provide specialty services on any Sunday of the month.
Written by Express News Service
Pune | February 12, 2010 12:52 AM IST
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Medical Education Minister Dr Vijay Kumar Gavit on Thursday called upon the government and private medical colleges to adopt places in the district and send doctors there to provide specialty services on any Sunday of the month. He also said the retirement age of lecturers/professors was likely to be raised from 58 to 62 years.
Gavit was in the city to inaugurate a students gymnasium and magnetic imaging resonance (MRI) machine at BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital. Sancheti Hospital has donated the equipment for the gymnasium while the BJ Medical College alumni also aided the project.
BJ Medical College dean Dr Arun Jamkar and deputy dean Renu Bharadwaj said the college had such a system in place now,under which teams were being sent to places like Shirur and Manchar.
The minister said the Cabinet would meet shortly to decide on the retirement age of lecturers/professors. Professors and teachers who had left the government service would also be wooed back from the private sector by offering them better remuneration on a contract basis,he said.
Gavit also announced the setting up of a research cell at the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER).
On the introduction of a rural MBBS course,Gavit said the proposal was being discussed now. We need to get Central funding to start such a course.
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