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Patna,(BiharTimes): Doctors, who passed out from the Patna Medical College Hospital and Darbhanga Medical College Hospital on Tuesday adopted a novel way to protest. They took to shoe-polish in the secretariat to register their protest against the government move to change the base year for selecting 699 doctors from 2010-11 to 2008-09 in the rank of senior resident/tutor in state-run medical colleges.

The government move has deprived many medicos, who passed out from medical colleges and got their MD and MS degrees in May this year.

The spokesman of the Shiksha Swasth Sudhar Andolan, Dr Mohammad Ali Muzaffar, said the appearing candidates, who had applied against the vacancies have not been considered for recruitment despite the fact that the number of applications the department received was much less then the vacancies advertised for.

He said that against 41 vacancies in Anatomy, there were only 11 applications. Similarly, against 27 vacancies in Bio-Chemistry the department received only 15 MBBS and MD applications while three others were of B.Sc and M.Sc pass-outs.

Dr Muzaffar criticized the lopsided policy of the government and said that the doctors are ready to work for a monthly remuneration of less than Rs 30,000. Yet, the government is not inclined to wipe out the shortage of doctors even as it struggles to convince the Medical Council of India to enhance seats in its existing medical colleges.

Though the doctors worked as shoe-shine boy, reports said that the health minister, the principal secretary and the additional secretary all vanished from the health secretariat upon seeing them. However, about two dozen doctors present there offered their service free of cost to the clerical staff of the health department.

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