The Hindu : `MBBS graduates must serve in State for 2 years'

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Friday, Jun 13, 2003

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Southern States - Kerala

`MBBS graduates must serve in State for 2 years'

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE JUNE 12. The Health Minister, P. Sankaran, today said that the Government would make it compulsory for State MBBS graduates to put in two years of service within Kerala.

Inaugurating the State-level Tuberculosis (TB) Disease Control Programme here, Mr. Sankaran said that this rule would be applicable for those medical graduates who return after higher studies from abroad. He said that the Government would formulate Kerala Medical Practitioners Act by codifying all other existing medical laws. He said that the State would be made TB-free in two years.

Minister's charge

Mr. Sankaran today said that the private medical shop at the Institute of Maternal and Child Health attached to the Medical College Hospital (MCH) here had been sanctioned by the previous LDF Government.

Talking to reporters here, the Minister said that the then LDF Health Minister, A. C. Shanmughadas, had sanctioned medical shops to private parties within Medical College Hospitals of Kottayam and Kozhikode.

He said that the private medical shop here was sanctioned based on a court order.

(There was a raging controversy here over the sanctioning of medical shop to a private party inside the Medical College Hospital here)

He termed the attack on the private medical shop here as `politically motivated'.

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