Dimapur, June 5 (EMN): Reiterating its support to the demand of Nagaland In-service Doctors’ Association (NIDA), the Angami Students’ Union (ASU) has appealed to the state government to reconsider its decision of re-employment and put into effect without further delay.
As the medical age superannuation was provisioned by the central government through Prime Minister’s announcement and subsequent amendment of Fundamental Rules 1922, Rule 56, clause ‘bb,’ ASU stated that almost all the state and union territories have extended the age services of medical doctors according to their needs.
ASU president, Bisevi Nakhro, and the vice president, Kevilelhou Zumu, expressed concern over shortage of in-service medical doctors in the state whereby many Primary Health Centres (PHC), Community Health Centres (CHC), District Hospitals and Medical department wings continued to function with no requisite doctors. As there could be no substitute to shortage of medical doctors, ASU insisted the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) to immediately conduct exams for the already requisitioned medical doctor posts. It also appealed to the state government for requisition of the resultant vacant medical posts to NPSC at the earliest for unemployed medical doctors.
With regard to Nagaland’s first medical college, ASU called upon the state government to come out clean on the issue of fund exhaustion and turtle pace of infrastructural development and strengthening of human resources to mend the college. The union also cautioned any individual/ group not to publish misleading circulations in order to avoid unnecessary hiccup against timely commencement of the proposed academic session.
ASU desired that the two medical colleges at Phriebagei in Kohima and Mon are made functional as announced by the state government during the recently concluded state assembly.