COVID Service Duration Will Be Counted As Compulsory Service: Govt Relief To PG Medicos In UP

 

Introduction

Through a recent order, UP's Medical Education and Training Department has declared its decision to acknowledge the services delivered by the resident doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its mandatory government service bond.

Through a recent order, UP's Medical Education and Training Department has declared its decision to acknowledge the services delivered by the resident doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its mandatory government service bond.

The Director General of the State Medical Education and Training Department issued this order after several senior residents from the 2018 batch wrote to them.

 

Submitting a jointly signed application to the office of the Director General of the State Medical Education department, these doctors from the 2018 batch informed that after completing their postgraduate course in 2021, they had faced delays regarding their employment by the State government under the compulsory government service bond.

 

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After completing their PG medical course, they were employed at the institute level while considering the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

However, the doctors presented that at that time, no orders had been given regarding the services of the period being included under the Compulsory Government Service Bond.

 

Directing this, the doctors wrote to the Medical Education Department of the State. They requested that the authorities include the services they rendered in the institute in 2021 in the compulsory government service bond.

 

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Taking note of the issue, the Director General of UP Medical Education and Training Department issued the current office order and offered ease to those doctors.

Regarding the facts expressed by the doctors, the UP Medical Education department announced that the service period of such prospects of the NEET PG 2018 batch, who were employed from the College, Medical Institute / Medical University level in the year 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been included in the duration of the mandatory government service bond.

 

"Thus, the compliance of the said order should be confirmed," read the order given by Director General Shruti Singh.

A duplicate of the concerned order has also been sent to many authorities, consisting the Principal Secretary of the UP Medical Education Section, and State Institute of Medical Sciences, the Directors of SGGI Lucknow, Dr. RMLIMS Lucknow, and the Principals of all Government and autonomous medical colleges of the State.

 

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