It is shocking that nearly 1,857 valuable super-speciality medical seats are lying vacant across the country simply because the Union...
M.K. Stalin said nearly 1,857 super-speciality medical seats are vacant nationwide, including 40 reserved for in-service doctors in Tamil Nadu, because the Union Government's Directorate General of Health Services has not reduced the qualifying percentile. He cited a Supreme Court direction and urged the Prime Minister to reduce it to zero, arguing public health is a state responsibility.
M.K.Stalin@mkstalinOriginal post
It is shocking that nearly 1,857 valuable super-speciality medical seats are lying vacant across the country simply because the Union Government’s DGHS has not reduced the qualifying percentile. This includes 40 seats exclusively meant for in-service doctors in Tamil Nadu.
Yesterday, in the Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association case, the Hon’ble Supreme Court directed that the percentile be reduced. I therefore urge Hon’ble @PMOIndia to intervene immediately and reduce it to zero percentile, as has been done in earlier years.
The Union Government must also allow States to independently reduce the percentile for their in-service quota when seats remain vacant. Public health is a constitutional responsibility of the States.
Not a single medical seat, a precious national asset, should be allowed to go waste when our people need more specialist doctors. #StateRights
DMK president M.K. Stalin said that nearly 1,857 super-speciality medical seats remain vacant across India, including 40 seats exclusively reserved for in-service doctors in Tamil Nadu, because the Union Government's Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has not reduced the qualifying percentile for these seats. He noted that a day earlier, the Supreme Court, ruling in the Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association case, had directed that the percentile be reduced. Stalin urged the Prime Minister to intervene immediately and lower the percentile to zero, as had reportedly been done in previous years. He further argued that the Union Government should allow individual states to independently reduce the qualifying percentile for their in-service quota whenever seats remain vacant, asserting that public health is a constitutional responsibility of the states. Stalin said no medical seat — a valuable national asset — should go to waste when the country needs more specialist doctors. The post was tagged #StateRights, framing the issue as a Centre-State matter.