AIIMS resident doctors call off strike, medical students to continue stir!

Resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today called-off their 19-day strike and decided to resume duties from tomorrow to avert a direct confrontation with the Supreme Court. They, however, will continue to support the anti-quota agitation waged by medicos against government proposal to introduce 27% reservation to OBCs in elite educational institutions.
This decision was taken during a General Body Meeting of AIIMS Resident Doctors` Association, hours after the apex court ordered medicos to return to work immediately.

All the best!

Selection list of candidates for admission to Medical Postgraduate MD/MS/Diploma Courses throught PGM-CET-2006 has been displayed by DMER today.
The new batch of PG students is all set to join in next 2 weeks.I wish all the best to all of them who have succeeded in getting their desired speciality.

Seats in Medical colleges will be increased: Govt

The health ministry has given an order that seats at 9 medical colleges in India including All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), should be increased as soon as possible.The move is the first concrete step by the government to pacify medical students protesting against reservation.
The Centre has asked all the nine medical colleges, including AIIMS, RML, Lady Hardinge, Safdarjung, PGI Chandigarh, NIMHANS Bangalore, JIPMER Pondicherry and Central Institute of Psychiatry in Ranchi, to assess their infrastructure and frame a plan to increase the number of seats.
The striking anti-reservation medicos held another round of talks with the government but the exercise failed to make headway as the students and resident doctors insisted the Centre give its response in writing to their demands and decided to continue their agitation.

During the three-hour talks, the government is understood to have conveyed to the medicos its decision to double the number of under graduate seats in medical education institutions, hike the retirement age of AIIMS faculty members from 60 to 65 and set up six more AIIMS across the country.

Medicos are not criminals!

Mumbai police on Saturday brutally beat up medicos and other students protesting against reservation. Close to 20 students sustained injuries, with two of them admitted to hospitals with suspected fractures. Many others were treated for minor injuries.This is really shocking.

Definitetly medicos were neither criminals nor they were breaking any law and order.Not only Medicos but every Indian should condemn manhandling of peaceful medicos.
Yesterday Pune witnessed a huge rally by around 600 medicos and engineering students from Pune,Panvel,Satara,Dhule and Nashik, who protested against attacks on medicos by police.IMA has also called for day long strike today which is bound to hit medical services.

Every Medico hopes a amicable solution to the ongoing crisis will be sought soon.

Dr Nityanand Mandke

Dr. Nityanand (Nitu) Mandke was born on 31st January 1948.

After completing MBBS from B.J. Medical College, Pune, he came to Mumbai for his postgraduation in General Surgery and Cardio-thoracic surgery, which he did from KEM Hospital, Mumbai.

He went to UK and later USA and worked for a number of years with greats like Sir Magdi Yacoub Dr. Kirklin and Dr. Pacifico. He returned in 1985 and was consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon at a number of hospitals in Mumbai.He was equally at ease while operating upon a 6 month old blue baby as well as a 60 year old man for coronary artery disease. He was instrumental in pushing and developing offpump coronary bypass surgery in India. He was one of the few who arranged for the training of his residents abroad, on a regular basis.

He was a brilliant, patriotic surgeon who put the cardio-thoracic specialty of our country on an international map.

We are proud of them!

Maharashtra is known for having best Medical colleges in India.Here we have premier medical colleges like Seth G.S.Medical College,Armed Force Medical College (AFMC)and B.J.Medical College which have always featured in to Top 10 Medical Colleges in India.

Some Medicos from Maharashtra have touched new heights while serving the needy patients and they will be remembered for years to come.Their clinical acumen,operative skills and social services made them famous across countries. They make us feel proud when we remember them.

Herewith,I am starting a series on who's who Medicos from Maharashtra.To start with,nobody comes to mind but only Dr.Nitu Mandke.

Mail me your Suggestions to maharashtramedicos@gmail.com Also send me articles on prominent medical personalities.