All state-sponsored doctors will now have to register with the Meghalaya Medical Council.
“Right now any doctor who clears MBBS course goes to another State to get a license. Henceforth, they will have to register with the state medical council, which will enable the department to keep a tap on the sponsored doctors,” Health Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said today.
On those who forfeit the bond and do not come back to serve in the State, she said, they will have to repay the bond, a slab which has already been recommended by the government.
“There is a norm put in place by the GOI and states cannot on their whims and fancy declare a bond. There is a recommended bond by the GOI and I am told it was revised a few years back to 30 lakhs for an MBBS for a specialist which is 1 crore. So now that we have our own State medical council, they will sit and engage and review all these matters,” she said.
Informing that the department has already taken some preliminary actions and will now be stringent, she said, “Recently, we had an interview with many doctors registered and joined the job with the joining report then the NEET result came, many of them qualified at their capacity to go for PGs we need PGs so we are keeping a tab now”.
