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Friday, November 30, 2007

Madurai News - Collector Meeting Boycott

Congrats to our Medical Officers.
Unity is Strength
Collector's meeting Boycott Total
TNGDA Madurai

Kind Doctors, Thank you Very Much for All Doctors of entire Madurai District for your full cooperation today for grand victory
TNGDA Madurai

Thursday, November 29, 2007

AIIMS Functioning Normally - Very few doctors boycotting Duty

From http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/nov/29aiims1.htm

By and large, the OPDs functioned normally with only some doctors who want the present director to continue in office staying away from work. The AIIMS administration led by medical superintendent D K Sharma had, following the Supreme Court orders, asked the resident doctors to refrain from striking work.

"All OPDs are functioning normally. There is no problem at all. I am supervising the OPDs operations,'' Sharma said, adding ''a few doctors have boycotted (the OPDs).''

The strike was called by Resident Doctors Association when the AIIMS bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha amid wide protests from Opposition benches.

The bill seeks to restrict the age of the AIIMS director at 65 years. The move may pave the way for removal of Venugopal from the post. Dr.Venugopal was instrumental in organising the anti-reservation strike and paid the doctors even for their strike period. This is in sharp contrast to the "No Work No Pay" principle of Supreme Court

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Career and Opportunities in Ayurveda

Learn Ayurveda in Kerala to place your life on the natural track to youthful life and to transform the lives of others in the same manner.

If you like to make Ayurveda your profession there is innumerable opportunities in the form of business opportunities and job vacancies.

If you are interested in a profession, you can look for careers like an

Ayurvedic Doctor – General Duty
Resident Medical Officer (RMO)
Hospital Administrators
Nurses
Masseurs
Panchakarma Assistants
Pharmacists
Lab Technicians
X-ray Assistants
Nursing Assistants
Attendants

Candidates can search for a job according their qualifications and aspirations or post their resumes. Include in your resume complete details about your experience in the field of Ayurveda, right from your beginning days of studies.

For persons looking to pursue courses in Ayurveda like

BAMS (Ayurveda Doctor – 5½ years, 4½ years study and 1-year internship)
Nursing
Masseurs Training (Certificate course – 3 months)
Panchakarma Training
Panchakarma Assistants Training (Certificate course – 3 months)
Attendants Training
Ayurveda Pharmacist Training

Etc can find opportunities in government run and private Ayurvedic medical colleges and training centers in Kerala. You can also find career guidance to find the course that suits your qualifications and tastes.

For business persons to start a business in India or abroad have plenty of opportunities in the form of franchise opportunities or agencies. There is solid demand for natural Ayurvedic medicines and products in almost all parts of the world, especially in the west.

Franchise model of business is beneficial in avoiding middlemen. However, not all Ayurvedic companies sell franchise. They prefer to go through the traditional route of agents, whole sale to retail. Some Ayurvedic companies in India still don’t sell medicines or products online.

A confident businessperson can identify plenty of opportunities available in Ayurveda pharmaceutical business, which still is on the growth stage. A saturation point is not in sight.

Apart from sales of pharmaceutical products, Ayurveda doctors also have the option to set franchise of well known Ayurvedic treatment centers to provide world class Ayurvedic treatment facilities.

People from across the world reach Kerala in search of Ayurvedic rejuvenation treatment, Ayurvedic massages and to learn different aspects of Ayurvedic treatment, pharmacology and massage techniques.

Persons that love the wonders of Ayurveda have a lot of opportunities to find a career or a business opportunity. Be dedicated to provide a better way of life to fellow beings and you will be successful in a career in Ayurveda.
Wanted Ayurvedic Professionals (hospitals/clinics/training centers can post your vacancies)

Job Required – Fresher and Experts can post your resume

Business Opportunities to start a Hospital/clinic/pharmaceuticals Agency/Franchisee/Representative/Branch

Career Guidance and Counseling for a bright future through professional courses in Ayurveda

Medical, Legal, Medicolegal Information for Doctors and Lawyers

Medical, Legal, Medicolegal Information for Doctors and Lawyers: Medico-legal curriculum draft release today

Medical, Legal, Medicolegal Information for Doctors and Lawyers

Medical, Legal, Medicolegal Information for Doctors and Lawyers: Medico-legal curriculum draft release today

Sunday, November 25, 2007

“Do not make service in rural areas compulsory”

“Do not make service in rural areas compulsory”
Says Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association

MADURAI: Increasing the duration of the M.B.B.S. course and introducing compulsory rural service in the pretext of improving rural health service is a gross exploitation of medical graduates, said K. Senthil, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA).

Supporting the agitating medical students and house surgeons in their cause, he said that introduction of the new system would be a retrograde step that would discourage cream of talents from pursuing medical education.

Poor remuneration

Citing poor remuneration in the field as one of the reasons which restrained students from taking up medical education, he said that the situation would worsen if the duration of the course was increased for compulsory rural service.

The TNGDA with its members working in rural areas had felt that such a move was uncalled for and had suggested certain motivational measures to promote rural service, he said.

Additional Marks

The Tamil Nadu Government had been granting one additional mark for one year of rural service to a maximum of 10 marks in the Tamil Nadu Post Graduate Entrance Examination, said Dr. Senthil and wanted the same to be followed in the All India Post Graduate Entrance Examination.

“The Government had conceded favourably to our request to grant two marks per year for those working in hilly terrains,” he said.

Extra remuneration could be paid to the medical professionals for working in remote and interior places, he suggested.

If at all Government wanted to make rural service compulsory citing the pitiable state of affairs in States like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh or in North Eastern States, State Governments could direct the respective State Medical Councils to register all medical graduates for a period of 10 years with one year compulsory rural service.

Registrations could be renewed on fulfilment of the condition, though TNGDA was not for compulsory rural posting, he said.

“Unwanted” step

The TNGDA also appealed to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to intervene and stop the “unwanted” step by the Union Health Ministry.



From http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/11/18/stories/2007111858570200.htm

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Regulations for Publishing a Book

Taken from THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT SERVANTS' CONDUCT RULES, 1973
(Corrected up to 31st March, 2007)
Personnel & Administrative Reforms (A) Department
(http://www.tn.gov.in/acts-rules/pandar/tngsc1973.pdf)

Rule 8: Private trade or employment
(4) (a) A Government servant shall not, without the permission of the Government publish any book or engage himself habitually in literary or artistic work of any kind:

Provided that a Government servant may publish occasionally books on literature, short story, novel, drama, essay and poetry without obtaining the prior permission of any higher authority, subject to the condition that he/she does not use his/her time and official position to influence the promotion of the sale of such books and that such books do not contain matters of political aspects, objectionable matter and views against the policy of the Government.
(b) Permission to publish a book shall ordinarily be given, subject to the condition that the Government servant does not use his time and official influence for promoting the sale of copies of the book:
Provided that any member of the teaching or the academic staff of all Government Educational and Research Institutions inclusive of Technical Educational Institutions, may publish books on professional and academic subjects without obtaining the prior permission of any higher authority, subject to the condition that he/she does not use his/her time and official influence for promoting the sale of copies of such articles or books, as the case may be, and that such publications do not relate to any acts and policies of the Government and the provisions of clause (d) shall not apply to such publisher.

(c) Permission to accept remuneration on "royalty basis" from the publishers shall be given in all cases except in the case of text-books for use in educational institutions. In the case of text-books, permission to accept remuneration shall be given subject to the conditions that the Government servant retains no interest in the sale of copies of the book and that he receives only a lump-sum as remuneration from the publisher;
Provided that any member of the teaching or the academic staff of all Government Educational and Research Institutions who writes books on professional and academic subjects, may receive remuneration on royalty basis irrespective of the fact whether the books are text-books or general books:
Provided further that a Government servant who writes books on literature, short story, novel, drama, essay and poetry shall immediately report to the prescribed authority the remuneration he receives from the publisher.
Explanation - For determining whether a book is a text-book or is a general book, the chief consideration shall be whether it is being submitted to the Text-book Committee, in the case of text-books for elementary and secondary schools and whether it is a book written according the syllabus prescribed by the University and his being submitted to the appropriate University Body for approval, in case of textbooks for colleges. A general book which may later happen to be approved as a text-book shall not be deemed to be a text-book for purposes of this clause.
(d) while applying to the Government for permission to publish a book which relates to acts or policies of Government, the Government servant shall submit to the Government for scrutiny a manuscript copy thereof.
(e) No Government servant who is member of the Text-Book Committee shall write or edit any textbook for use in recognised school during his membership of the Committee.

Explanation - A recognised school shall mean a school maintained by or opened with the sanction of the Government or to which recognition has been accorded under the Tamil Nadu Educational Rules or under the rules framed under the Tamil Nadu Elementary Education Act,1920(Tamil Nadu Act VIII of 1920).

Rule 10. Unauthorised communication of information - (1) No Government servant shall, except in accordance with any general or special order of the Government or in the performance in good faith of the duties assigned to him, communicate, directly or indirectly any official document or any part thereof or information to any Government servant or any other person to whom he is not authorised to communicate such document or information.
(2) Sub-rule (1) shall apply to the Government Pleaders, Public Prosecutors and other officials who are not full-time officers, but are engaged by the Government to do specified work without prejudice to the regular exercise of their professions in other respects; but sub-rule (1) shall not apply to the Special Public Prosecutors and Pleaders engaged to do Government work generally in specified local areas or specially in any particular case or class of cases.

Rule
11. Connection with Press, Television or Radio -
(1) No Government servant shall, except with the previous sanction of the Government, own wholly or in part, or conduct or participate in the editing or managing of any newspaper or other periodical publication.
(2) No Government servant shall, except with the previous sanction of the Government or of any authority or officer empowered by them in this behalf, or in the bonafide discharge of his duties contribute any article or write any letter either unanimously or in his own name or in the name of any other person to any newspaper or other Periodical Publications;
Provided that no such sanction shall be required if such contribution or writing is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific character.
(3) No Government servant shall except with the previous sanction of the Government or of any authority or officer empowered by them in this behalf, or in the bonafide discharge of his duties, participate in a television programme or radio broadcast;
Provided that no such sanction shall be required if such television programme or radio broadcast, is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific character, or if the Government servant concerned has responsibility at the policy making level or at the implementation level for the subject of the television programme or radio broadcast.
(4) A Government servant who is invited or who wishes to participate in a television programme or to deliver a radio broadcast talk and has to obtain the previous sanction under sub-rule (3) shall intimate the Government through the proper channel, the particulars relating to the television programme or the subject of the radio broadcast talk and if so required shall submit the full material relating to the television programme or the full text of the radio broadcast talk for their approval before participating in the television programme or before the radio broadcast talk is delivered.
(5) The provisions of sub-rules (3) and (4) shall apply mutadis mutandis to the playing of prepared 'recitals' or gramaphone records.
(6) In respect of television programme or radio broadcasts, the powers of the Government shall be exercised by -
(i) the heads of departments in respect of Government servants serving in their respective departments.
(ii) all collectors in respect of Government servants belonging to Group 'C' and 'D' under their administrative control;
(iii) the District Educational Officers or the Inspectress of Girls Schools, as the case may be, in respect of teachers in Government Schools; Secondary and Training Schools;
(iv) the Principals of Government Colleges in respect of Government servants employed in such colleges; and
(v) All heads of offices of the Agricultural Department who are officers belonging to Groups A and B in respect of Government servants under their control.
(7) This rule shall apply to Government Pleaders, Public Prosecutors and other officials who are not full-time officers, but are engaged by the Government to do specific work without prejudice to the regular exercise of their profession in other respects but this rule shall not apply to the Special Public Prosecutors and Pleaders engaged to do Government work generally in specified local areas or specially in any particular case or class of cases.
Rule 12. Criticism of Government - (1) No Government servant shall in any radio broadcast or in any document published unonymously or in his own name or in the name of any other person or in any communication to the press or in any public utterance, make any statement of fact or opinion -
(i) which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any Current or recent policy or action of the Central Government or a State Government, or
(ii) which is capable of embarrassing the relations between this State Government and any other Government; or
(iii) which is capable of embarrassing the relations between the Central Government and the Government of any foreign State;
Provided that nothing in this rule shall apply to any statement made or views expressed by a Government servant in his official capacity or in the due performance of the duties assigned to him :
Provided further that in the case of any Government servant nothing contained in this rule shall apply to bonafide expression of views by him as an office bearer of any recognised association of Government servants for the purpose of safeguarding the conditions of service of Government servants or for securing an improvement thereof.
(2) A Government servant shall not, except in the discharge of his official duties, preside over, or take part in the organisation of or occupy a prominent position at or address, any non-official meeting or conference at which it is likely that speeches may be made or resolutions may be proposed or passed criticising the action of the Government or requesting the Government to take certain action other than to make grants admissible under Government rules or orders in support of educational or similar institutions.
Explanation - Regularly convened meetings for the transaction of their legitimate business, of district boards, municipal councils and similar bodies established by law or created by the Government and of associations of Government servants recognised by the Government and of committees or branches of such bodies or associations and meetings called by the Sheriff of Madras are not "non-official" meetings for the purposes of this rule.
(3) A Government servant who intends to publish any document or to make any communication to the press or to deliver any public utterance containing statements in respect of which any doubt as to the application of the restrictions imposed by this rule may arise, shall submit to the Government a copy of draft of the document which he intends to publish or of the utterance which he intends to deliver, and shallthereafter act in accordance with such orders as may be passed by the Government.
(4) This rule shall apply to the Government Pleaders, Public Prosecutors and other officials who are not full-time officers but are engaged by the Government to do specified work without prejudice to the regular exercise of their professions in other respects; but this rule shall not apply to the Special Public Prosecutors and Pleaders engaged to do Government work generally in specified local areas or specially in any particular case or class of cases.

Monday, November 19, 2007

“Strengthen faculty in medical colleges”

From http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/19/stories/2007111957590200.htm

Doctors’ association plea to State Government

MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu Government Doctors’ Association had urged the State Government to form a high-power committee to work out definitive and long term steps to look into the shortage of teaching faculty in the medical colleges, according to its secretary K. Senthil.

The association had already suggested the Government to generate sufficient faculty members in the colleges.

Welcoming the Government’s intention to have at least one medical college in every district, the association wanted the State to take concrete decision to increase the number of faculty members, he said.

Expressing concern over the shortage of staff, the association stressed on the immediate need to find ways to attract more medical professionals to the teaching field and concentrate on developing health education in the State.

Citing poor remuneration as one of the possible reasons that might have forced doctors not to prefer teaching profession, the TNGDA demanded pay and allowances on a par with those being offered for medical professionals working in medical colleges and hospitals in neighbouring states of Karnataka and Kerala.

Already the Government was finding it difficult to fill up the sanctioned posts in the non-clinical side of medical colleges, Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEMONC) centres of Government hospitals and primary health centres located in remote areas. Further, with increased risk of contracting infections such as HIV and multi-drug tuberculosis, the medical profession seemed to a risky affair, said Dr. Senthil.

The association had also pointed out decline in interest among the students to pursue medical education due to poor remuneration package in this field compared to the IT sector.

The TNGDA had also sought for constitution of an exclusive panel to look into this issue.

“Do not make rural service compulsory”

From http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/19/stories/2007111954410600.htm

Increasing the duration of the M.B.B.S. course and introducing compulsory rural service in the pretext of improving rural health service is a gross exploitation of medical graduates, said K. Senthil, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA).

Supporting the agitating medical students and house surgeons in their cause, he said that introduction of the new system would be a retrograde step that would discourage cream of talents from pursuing medical education.
Poor remuneration

Citing poor remuneration in the field as one of the reasons which restrained students from taking up medical education, he said that the situation would worsen if the duration of the course was increased for compulsory rural service.

The TNGDA with its members working in rural areas had felt that such a move was uncalled for and had suggested certain motivational measures to promote rural service, he said.
Additional Marks

The Tamil Nadu Government had been granting one additional mark for one year of rural service to a maximum of 10 marks in the Tamil Nadu Post Graduate Entrance Examination, said Dr. Senthil and wanted the same to be followed in the All India Post Graduate Entrance Examination. “The Government had conceded favourably to our request to grant two marks per year for those working in hilly terrains,” he said. Extra remuneration could be paid to the medical professionals for working in remote and interior places, he suggested.

The TNGDA also appealed to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to intervene and stop the “unwanted” step by the Union Health Ministry.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Theni News - Collector Meeting Boycott

Theni District Collector arranged for meeting of Medical Officers on November 16 at 5:30 pm. TNGDA Called for boycott at Theni District. If the meeting starts after 5:30 pm all MOs will totally boycott and no one attended.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

PHCs deliver better performance

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/11/08/stories/2007110860460700.htm

CHENNAI: Nearly a year’s sustained efforts at improving emergency obstetric care in rural areas in Tamil Nadu seem to have resulted in better usage of the facilities at the PHC-level.

If the actual count of the deliveries in a PHC is to be taken as a measure of success of the government’s campaign, then it is an impressive tale of achievement; total number of deliveries went up by about 59 per cent between 2006 and 2007. Between April and October 2006, there were 45,950 deliveries. In 2007, during the same period, the number went up to 72,946.

“This indicates that PHCs have, indeed, become the first choice for pregnant women in rural areas, because they are able to provide good care. Earlier, the number of private sector deliveries used to be higher in rural areas, with PHCs not up to scratch,” says Apoorva, Commissioner of Maternal and Child Health.

The number of deliveries has been steadily increasing since April 2007, climbing to an all time high of 15,009 in October this year.

Comparatively, even at its peak performance last year, there were only 6,895 deliveries in October.
Top performers

Eight health unit districts (two health units on an average in a district) in the State have contributed quite significantly to the improved performance by tipping the average. PHCs in Vellore, Poonamallee, Dharmapuri, Tiruvallur, Tirupattur, Madurai and Salem have improved their performance to average between 15-32 deliveries per PHC per month. Vellore and Tiruvallur are the top performers, increasing the number of deliveries by over 2,000 in a year.

In 14 other districts, the average number of deliveries has been 10-14 per PHC this year. The Nagercoil HUD has the lowest record of an average of two deliveries a month. Six other HUDs that are in the ‘red zone’ are centres that have an average of 4, 5, 6 deliveries per PHC every month. It is this area that requires working on, health department officials say. “The ideal would be about 30 deliveries per month,” Ms. Apoorva says. Better performance can also be demanded of other centres that are notching between 7 and 13 deliveries a month per PHC.

She attributes the improved performance over the last year to a bunch of factors that have freshly come to play in that period. For one, a flush of funds have come in from the Centre’s National Rural Health Mission project — every PHC gets additional funds totting up to Rs.1.75 lakh per annum under various categories. This is apart from the regular State budgeting.

Another big contributor is the decision to keep PHCs open for 24 hours. Three staff nurses are on call constantly. “We want the PHCs to take care of all deliveries that do not have any complications. Earlier, the PHCs would be closed when the women went or would refer them to other centres. Now, we have given them strict instructions to refer only those patients developing complications,” she said.

Constant monitoring of the processes, providing training and sensitisation of doctors and staff too have had a role to play in encouraging the locals to come to the PHC rather than seek the services of a private practitioner.

The challenge, however, is to keep up the good performance and to get other PHCs to show good results as well.

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