Fees in authorities medical faculties lower than that of playschools says Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel

The charges charged from college students in authorities medical faculties within the state is lower than that charged by a play college, stated Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, who additionally maintain Health portfolio, on Thursday through the Question Hour which was later suspended.
“The state government spends between Rs 30-40 lakh to help a medical student become a doctor. The fee that we take is just Rs 25,000 which is less than those for play school,” stated Patel in reply to a query requested by Congress MLA Kantibhai Sodha Parmar.
The minister stated that the bond quantity that the federal government collects from docs who refuses to serve in rural areas after finishing their research has additionally been raised by the BJP authorities. “Earlier the bond amount was just Rs 10,000. After I took charge, we became stricter and raised it to Rs 20 lakh for MBBS and Rs 40 lakh for post-graduation. Due to this doctors have become available and we have started getting good doctors in primary health centres and civil hospitals,” he added.
“I had earlier thought about not permitting doctors to practice in the state if they failed to fulfil the conditions of their bond. But due to prevailing laws and court judgments, no registered MBBS doctor can be stopped from practice. The state government has the right to only collect the amount promised as bond,” Patel stated including that Rs 19 crore was collected as bond from erring docs.

However, the Gujarat Assembly needed to be suspended for the primary time through the ongoing Budget session after a confrontation between ruling BJP and the opposition Congress, broke out throughout discussions on supplementary questions on the identical matter.
When president of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) Amit Chavda claimed that Nitin Patel had laid the inspiration stone of a civil hospital in Anand district which was but to be constructed, the minister made some remarks which was later expunged from the information of the Assembly by Speaker Rajendra Trivedi. “I strictly deny the claim made by Amitbhai. I never laid the foundation stone of the hospital,” Patel added. The Speaker needed to droop the Assembly for the rest of the Question Hour after chaos reigned on either side.
In the written replies submitted by the Gujarat authorities, a complete of two,269 docs had been appointed by the Gujarat authorities within the final two years after they handed MBBS from the state authorities faculties. Of these, solely 373 docs reported to work, whereas the state authorities initiated measures to gather the bond quantity from the remaining docs.The authorities said that in this two yr interval, solely Rs 12.08 crore of bond quantity has been collected from 244 docs who didn’t report back to work, whereas Rs 83.6 crore is but to be collected.