Bhubaneswar, March 4 -- Bhubaneswar: The Post-graduation doctors' association in Odisha has strongly opposed the State government's move to appoint medical graduates from other States to meet large scale vacancies in the public health facilities.

While demanding immediate rollback of the decision, the Association has said that students successfully passed from different State-run medical colleges are waiting to get appointment in State hospitals as doctors. If government invites medical degree holders from outside, the future of the students of Odisha will be bleak for sure, asked Dr Harmohan Barik, President of Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) at SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack.

He said that as many as 1600 students pass e...