BHU medicos to go on indefinite strike from tomorrow

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Varanasi, July 20 (UNI) Resident doctors at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) hospital here have decided to go on indefinite strike from tomorrow in support of their demand to conduct second counselling for internal candidates for admission to Post Graduate course.

''Resident doctors of Sir Sunder Lal Hospital, BHU, will strike work indefinitely from tomorrow and will be joined by undergraduate medical students at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS-BHU), who will boycott classes in support of our demand for conducting a second counselling for internal candidates for admission to five vacant seats in PG,'' BHU Resident Doctors Association vice-president Avinash Singh said here.

Five out of the total 82 PG seats of IMS-BHU are still vacant despite completion of admission process for all candidates. While two rounds of counselling has been conducted for external candidates, only one round of counselling has been held for internal candidates.

''We demand immediate second round counselling for internal candidates to fill the five vacant seats which must be filled by internal candidates only just like other premier medical institutes including AIIMS, New Delhi and PGI Chandigarh. But the IMS administration headed by Director Gajendra Singh is hell bent at not conducting second round of counselling for internal candidates,'' Dr Singh said.

''We are going on indefinite strike from tomorrow which will be called off only after our demand is fulfilled by the autocratic IMS director,'' Dr Singh said.

Out of the 82 PG seats, 41 are filled directly by the Director General of Health Services while 28 are filled with internal candidates who have passed MBBS from BHU only. The remaining 13 seats are filled through an All India PG entrance examination which was conducted by IMS-BHU in May.

The five vacant seats include one each for General Surgery, General Medicine, Pharmacology, Dermatology and Anaesthesiology.

UNI

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