NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed concern over the 1,450 post-graduate medical seats going vacant this year despite the country facing a dearth of medical professionals, telling the Centre that “You are playing with the future of doctors.”
The court has sought an affidavit to be filed by the Centre and the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) during the course of the day explaining why these seats were not filled by conducting an additional mop-up counselling round. The court has also warned that it may consider asking the Centre to pay compensation to the doctors for playing with their lives and future.
A bench of justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose said, “Even if a single seat is vacant, it should be filled and not allowed to be wasted…If students are not given admission, we will pass compensation orders against you for playing with the lives and future of doctors.”
