Telangana: Doctors, senior residents slam medical recruitment board over ‘illogical’ drive

The MHSRB recruitment process in Telangana has drawn criticism from doctors and aspirants, who allege administrative mismanagement and an illogical sequence between DME and TVVP hiring, warning it could lead to vacancies and impact healthcare services

Hyderabad: The recruitment process initiated by the Telangana Medical and Health Services Recruitment Board (MHSRB) has come under intense scrutiny, with associations representing doctors, senior residents and aspirants criticising the way the recruitment is being conducted.

Aspirants and doctors’ associations pointed towards ‘administrative mismanagement’ on the part of MHSRB in recruiting doctors for hospitals falling under Director of Medical Education (DME) and Telangana Vaidya Vidhan Parishad (TVVP).

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At present, the MHSRB is in the process of conducting two recruitment drives, recruitment of 607 Assistant Professors posts under DME and another to recruit 1,623 specialist doctors for secondary hospitals under TVVP.

“Despite the DME notification being older, the State government is prioritising the TVVP specialist recruitment. A majority of candidates who qualify as TVVP specialists are also contenders for DME Assistant Professor role. If the TVVP recruitment is finalised first, these doctors will join district and area hospitals, only to resign weeks later when the DME results are announced,” senior residents said.

“If specialists join and then immediately resign to take up teaching posts, those TVVP seats remain vacant for another year. It’s a lose-lose situation for the hospitals and the public,” a senior office-bearer of Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) said.

The associations have demanded the MHSRB complete the DME recruitment first which will ensure those who want teaching roles are placed first. The subsequent TVVP recruitment will then be filled by candidates who are likely to stay in those specialist roles.

The current ‘illogical’ recruitment order suggests a lack of coordination between the DME and TVVP wings, they added.