New Delhi, June 18
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to direct the medical universities to cancel or postpone the final year Post Graduate exams on the grounds that the examinee-doctors have been engaged in Covid duty.
A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and MR Shah said it could not pass any general order to all the universities not to conduct or postpone the final year postgraduate medical examination.
The top court noted that the National Medical Council (NMC) had already issued an advisory in April asking the universities in the country to take the Covid situation into consideration while announcing the dates for final-year examination.
Advocate Gaurav Sharma, appearing for NMC, said that not all doctors were engaged in Covid duty and the council had issued an advisory in April to all the universities to hold the examination after taking into consideration the Covid situation in their respective areas.
Hegde said that since the doctors were engaged in Covid duty, they were not able to prepare for the examination which would enable them to become senior resident doctors.
At the outset, the bench clarified that it is not allowing the doctors to be promoted without appearing for the examination.
