The Centre on Tuesday granted 265 Diplomate of Nationwide Board (DNB) postgraduate medical seats to a number of authorities hospitals throughout 20 districts within the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, in step with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient of “Well being for All”.
Fifty per cent of the postgraduate seats might be reserved for native in-service medical doctors to offer them with the chance for postgraduate coaching, the Union well being ministry mentioned in an announcement.
The step is not going to solely profit folks of Jammu and Kashmir, however the medical doctors there may even get a chance of being skilled in their very own area, it mentioned, including that the Centre can also be of the view that tapping into the homegrown medical workforce would result in an efficient healthcare supply system within the UT.
“With the imaginative and prescient of offering skilled specialists in nearly each district of Jammu and Kashmir, the Authorities of India took this as a problem in a mission mode,” learn the assertion.
“The ministry of well being together with Nationwide Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) took a lead position and ensured that a number of postgraduate seats of NBEMS are granted to varied authorities hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir,” it added.
As a consequence, the ministry mentioned, at current there exist greater than 250 postgraduate seats throughout 20 districts, which is the section 1 of the growth plan. Two extra PG seats might be granted within the second section.
Jammu and Kashmir presently has 156 DNB broad speciality postgraduate medical seats, in response to the NBEMS web site.
DBN is a postgraduate diploma similar as MD/MS diploma awarded to the specialist medical doctors in India after completion of three-year residency.
“The folks of Jammu and Kashmir might be benefited as trendy high quality healthcare will turn into extra reasonably priced and accessible in nearly all of the districts,” learn the assertion. “This in flip, would additional improve the standard of main, secondary, and tertiary healthcare.”
The Centre has additionally elevated the variety of examination centres within the UT to make sure that the candidates wouldn’t have to journey to different states to seem within the entrance examinations.