Medical College And Government Hospitals In UP To Get Exemption Of Private Practice Soon

Lucknow, August 21 (TNA) Faculty members (medical teachers) working in the medical colleges of the state are banned from doing private practice. Assistant professors working on contract in medical colleges are given an honorarium of Rs 90,000 to 1.10 lakh.

For this, the Medical Education and Medical and Health Department is preparing the draft, an official privy to the development informed. It will soon be presented in the cabinet for approval, he added. It will be implemented in a phased manner after getting approval from the cabinet.

Assistant professors working on contract in medical colleges are given an honorarium of Rs Rs 90,000 to 1.10 lakh. While Assistant Professor with regular appointment gets a salary of around Rs 1.30 lakh.

In lieu of this, the assistant professor with contract has got the exemption of private practice. Now preparations are on to give this exemption to other faculty members as well. According to sources, preparations are on to start giving exemption of private practice to faculty members in medical colleges from Kalyan Singh Super Specialty Cancer Institute in Lucknow.

Paid OPD will be started here in the evening. Faculty members of the institute will see patients in this OPD. The income from this will be given to the faculty members here. Its complete action plan is expected to be approved on August 23. After this, this system will be implemented in other medical colleges as well.

Under the provincial medical service cadre, the posts of about six thousand doctors are vacant in comparison to the sanctioned posts for government hospitals. The Health Department believes that private practice is also a major reason for the non-availability of doctors in government service. Due to lack of exemption, doctors do not join government service. In such a situation, there is a preparation to give exemption of private practice to the doctors working in government hospitals.

Departmental sources say that an action plan is being prepared for this. Its two models are being prepared. One model will be of private practice. In this, the doctors who want to do private practice, they will not be given about 20 thousand rupees per month as non-practice allowance.

They will be able to do private practice in the hospital premises in the evening. The income from this will be given to the doctor. In the second model, they would be doctors who would take an allowance and not do private practice. This system is being prepared keeping in view the convenience of the doctors.