With delay in getting registered with medical council, future of MBBS graduates, MDs up in air

By Sanchari ChattopadhyayPublished On 2021-07-17T10:00:22+05:30 | Updated On 2021-07-17T18:18:19+05:30

With delay in getting registered with medical council, future of MBBS graduates, MDs up in air

Srinagar: The future of hundreds of MBBS graduates and MDs are up in the air as the doctors are unable to get their registration certificates from State Medical Council (SMC) in wake of the expiry of its constituent body.

The delay in issuance of registration certificate comes as a serious drawback for medicos as their efforts to apply for job is getting hampered . As far as the intern doctors who have already started working are concerned, their stipend release process is also getting delayed due to lag in providing them medical licenses.

Meanwhile, the medical graduates and doctors who have recently completed their MD will not be able to apply for posts like medical officers without the registration certificates. Moreover, MBBS graduates are facing problems in appearing for MD exams without a license.

However, the doctors have been running from pillar to post to get their registration certificates. Earlier, the MBBS graduates used to apply for registration via offline mode. In June last year, the government initiated an online registration system with the facility of submission of applications for the certificates only.

A delegation of MBBS graduates told Rising Kashmir that the process of issuing the registration certificates is getting delayed as the term for its constituent body has expired. Sharing his experience, one of the students of Government Medical College, Srinagar told the daily that after the completion of his MBBS course along with an internship in March 2021, the doctor had applied like others for SMC registration.

"But to this day, I along with the majority of my batch mates haven't been issued the same. Even months have passed since we uploaded our documents along with fees but nothing has happened yet," he stated.

Commenting on the issue, Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Medical Education Department, Atal Dulloo stated that the department has already raised the issue and submitted a proposal to the General Administration Department. "Now it is under the purview of the GAD that has to take a final call on it," he said.

Source : with inputs