Utilisation of fresh medical graduates who have studied under government scholarship

[Angel]

The government is soon coming up with a ‘Health Sector Human Resource Mobilisation Programme’ to counter the shortage of skilled manpower in the medical field by providing job placements for fresh doctors who studied under government scholarships.

“The guideline will address the legal and resource constraints regarding the utilisation of fresh medical graduates who have studied under government scholarships,” Dr Baburam Marasini, senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), told this daily.

“According to the new provision, fresh medical graduates will have to serve at least two years in a government hospital, especially in remote areas,” he said.

Though fresh doctors are bound by law to serve the country for five years after the completion of their studies under the Scholarship Act, 1968, the health ministry had not been able to utilise the manpower due to legal and resource constraints.

The MoHP, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) and the Nepal Medical Council are jointly formulating the guideline, which is in its final stage.

According to a source at the health ministry, it will be made public within a few months. “The MoHP will ensure job placements in government hospitals for fresh medical graduates,” Dr Marasini said. There are only 1,200 doctors under the MoHP.

Recently the MoHP and the Department of Health Services (DoHS) have taken action against 61 medical professionals — around 20 of them doctors — who were absent for more than two months without any prior notice.

Every year, the education ministry provides scholarships for 100 medical students.

The director general at the DoHS, Dr Bishnu Pandit, said the new provision would counter the shortage of doctors in remote areas. “The problem is mainly due to lack of a reserve pool and adequate quota of doctors,” Dr Pandit said.

MoES spokesperson Laba Prasad Tripathee said, “As per the Scholarship Act the candidate will be free to practice elsewhere if the government does not engage him/her within a year,” Tripathee said.

This year, the government could hire only three doctors on contract for one year with a salary of Rs 25,000 per month. The government had invited applications for 25 doctors for 25 districts.

Source: THE HIMALAYAN TIMES

[saroj25]

thikka paryo.. hamilai china ko bahnera hepneharulai.. 10 barsa ko dinu parne aja

[Mati]

I am ready to serve the remote hospitals of the govt
but
how about the basic infrastructure, security and incentives?
It is govt's fault to fail to utilize her manpower.

Finally, it seems they are coming but such promises were made previously just to orgnize another press conference.

best wishes,
mati
from: AMDA Hospital, Damak, Jhapa

[GUNNER]

i hope it's not just another law in the making...it should be put into act....

[Ajay]

i agree with mati dai. Its gr8 to serve the nation but basic facilities shud be provided coz without basic medical facilities and instruments a doc is no better than health assistant or any primary health worker.

[Suvash]

i don't know how good is this news...
i think whatever mati dai and ajaya has said is perfectly true..i mean the security factor, other amneties...
besides these i think the government should have make a kind of agreement in paper before providing scholarships to the students, i don't think they had done anything like that....now that students have studied 3-4 years and they are raising such issues, i don't think its good. i mean they shud have put this matter before students enroll in the colleges so that if the students don't want to go to the remote areas they would leave the seat they recived...
and

thikka paryo.. hamilai china ko bahnera hepneharulai.. 10 barsa ko dinu parne aja

pls saroj ji don't be tooo hard on the scholarship holders..
and anyway we don't look down upon you guys there in china...

[embolus]

sab bakwas ho.... rule ta pahile pani thiyoo ni khoi kahile use bhayeko dekhiyena, ahile 25 jana ma 3 jana doctor pani balla talla pathayeko pir le garda aba rule lagaunu parchha bhaneko matra ho.

25 jana lai pathaye pachhi yo rule afai harayera jancha.


Tara ma chahanchhu yoo rule ayoos tara ke garne, afue bachne bato ta banayeko chha ni sarkara le... pachi saba graduate le mala pani patha malai pani patha bhanne bela ma tension na hos bhanera yesto bhandaichha Tripathee le

MoES spokesperson Laba Prasad Tripathee said, “As per the Scholarship Act the candidate will be free to practice elsewhere if the government does not engage him/her within a year,” Tripathee said.

chalak chha ni sarkar pani

Oei saojee talai ko le hepyoo

Originally Posted by saroj25

thikka paryo.. hamilai china ko bahnera hepneharulai.. 10 barsa ko dinu parne aja

mero mann ma ta testo kei pani chhaina ta afaile hepne rahichha bhandai na bas na ta pani doctor ma pani future doctor ani ke ko hepne kura garchha guff na dee na sathi

[Japanese]

Why only to the scholarship holders?Why not to all? Does the government think that it doesn't have any contribution on the study of NON-SCHOLARSHIP student?I think it has.In my view, the rule is good,but the scope must be extended to all.
But anyway,when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.The first one is often true in our case.

[Psoas Major]

Hoyina yo nepal ko rule ke ho ke ..jhan fresh graduates harulai ramro infrastructure vayeko thau ma sikawunuvanda remote area ma ptayera manche marne bichar cha ki kya ho govt. ko ..decision is very much childish itself ...
senior HO harulai remote thau ma practice garna pathawunuparcha ,fresh graduates lai ta kehi samaya samma ta tertiory care centre ma rakhera training dinuparne hoyina ra ???? ke janos bichara fresh graduates harule ki nepal ko gau ma kati samma ko health facilities pugeko cha vanera ...so in my opinion instaed of sending fresh graduates ,it should send Seniors HO who can give treatment to the patient provided that there is minimal health facilities ...

[Japanese]

Originally Posted by saroj25

thikka paryo.. hamilai china ko bahnera hepneharulai.. 10 barsa ko dinu parne aja

Ke bhaneko yar testo? Kasle hepyo? kasaile hepna sakdaina yar timilai.....Kina hepne? ke ko lagi hepne...Scholarship is an opportunity influenced by many factors including passion,it doesn't necessarily reveal the capacity in many cases.....Tesaile esto hepne sepne kura ko pachhadi najau hola yar....aakhir sabaile struggle garnu parne nai chha kyare jindagi ma...Sabai jana marera janai parne ho kyare antim ma....