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timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Doctors-with-disability-Surgical-jobs-still-denied/articleshow/47848644.cms
Even though the health ministry has changed the policy for CHS jobs,
discrimination continues in top institutions such as PGI Chandigarh, Maulana
Azad Medical College in Delhi and various ESI hospitals and medical colleges
across the country. TOI has scanned copies of advertisements that state jobs
under non-surgical disciplines only are reserved for persons with locomotor
disabilities. Ironically, several MBBS graduates with disabilities who cleared the
PG entrance exam have been allotted surgical disciplines. “Why allot us surgical
disciplines and train us when these jobs are not open to us?” asked a student
who is currently pursuing PG in orthopaedics.
In 2003, the MCI stipulated that only those with locomotor disability of the
lower limbs between 50% and 70% can be given admissions in medical
courses and the courts ensured that these persons could avail the 3% disability
quota in medical colleges. Certain disciplines have also been opened for those
with one arm affected. In the 12 years since, even if just 1% of those 3% MBBS
seats were filled, it would amount to over a thousand doctors with locomotor
disability.