BDS docs stare at grim prospect
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 26 2015:
As per the Dental Act 1948, Dental Councils should be set up in each and every State and all dentists should be registered with the Dental Council of their respective States after completing BDS course.
As such, many dentists who have completed BDS course would be rendered ineligible for applying for jobs in Government hospitals or private clinics.
According to a new directive of the Dental Council of India (DCI), each and every State should have their own Dental Council compulsorily, informed an official source.
After the State Dental Councils are established, dentists who have completed BDS course should be registered with the Dental Council of their respective States.
A dentist who is not registered with a Dental Council is not eligible to apply for jobs in Government as well as private hospitals.
On the average, 40 students of Manipur complete BDS course every year.
In the absence of the State's own dental council, medical students of Manipur who have completed BDS course have been registering themselves at Guwahati, Kolkata, Chennai and other State capitals.
This system of registration with Dental Councils of adopted States would not be applicable after sometime.
In another word, dentists would not allowed to register themselves with Dental Councils other than those of their own home States.
The Dental Council of India (DCI) has already asked all States to set up their own Dental Councils verbally and DCI is expected to send out written instructions to this effect every soon.
In order to set up Dental Council, the Manipur State Dental Registration Tribunal should be constituted first.
The State Government initiated certain measures to set up the Manipur State Dental Registration Tribunal in August 2013 .
On August 5 same year, Principal Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) issued a notification thereby nominating Dr N Sukumar, Dr H Surajbala and Dr Th Somorendro as members of the State Dental Registration Tribunal.
The same notification which should come into effect immediately nominated Dr Yumnam Suraj as ex-officio registrar of the tribunal.
Once the Manipur State Dental Registration Tribunal becomes functional, the State Dental Council would come into being automatically.
However, the post of ex-officio registrar went vacant after Dr Yumnam Suraj got selected against MCS post.
Till date, the post of ex-officio registrar remains vacant thereby keeping the Manipur State Dental Registration Tribunal defunct.
Moreover, two dental Professors were appointed as advisors of the tribunal on August 6, 2013.All these efforts went in vain as the vacant post of ex-officio registrar was not filled up.