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The health department has issued a directive to the principals of all government medical colleges and chief medical officers of health (CMOHs) across districts in the state on 28 January.
The health department has issued a directive to the principals of all government medical colleges and chief medical officers of health (CMOHs) across districts in the state on 28 January.
The CMS, sole medicines and medical devices procuring wing under the health department, has also asked the MSVPs and CMOHs to withdraw all existing stocks of medicines, including saline supplied by the controversial manufacturing company from wards in state-run teaching and non-teaching hospitals.
Faculties associated with different departments in government medical colleges across the state from now will have to take written clearance from principals of respective teaching hospitals before meeting health bosses at Swasthya Bhaban, health department headquarters at Salt Lake.
Narayan Swarup Nigam, the state health principal secretary, today asked them to personally take note of the conditions of the junior doctors undergoing treatment at different state medical colleges and set up medical boards, if necessary, for proper treatment.
The agitators started their protest at Dorina Crossing at Esplanade till the administration solved their unresolved demands within the stipulated deadline.
Medical professionals across the country held a brainstorming session on strengthening the healthcare system, students' curriculum and learning patterns among other topics.
Junior doctors from various medical colleges and hospitals across West Bengal on Wednesday staged a dharna in front of the Swasthya Bhaban, demanding justice for the rape and murder and increased security in their workplaces.
The Department of Medical Education of UP has now submitted another appeal to the Union Health Minister, requesting permission to admit 100 students each into autonomous state medical colleges in six districts.
With a sharp focus and providing momentum to Nari Shakti, the government will encourage vaccination for girls in the age group 9 - 14 years to prevent cervical cancer.
The envisaged Shillong Medical College aims to harness existing resources such as the Civil Hospital, Shillong, and Ganesh Das Hospital.
