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Changes that the Modi government has been pursuing relentlessly has percolated to every aspect of life such as history, art, social issues and education to name a few. In 2018 the Indian Medical Council(IMC) was relegated to history when the government formed the National Medical Council(NMC). The setting up of NMC was a government move to bring reforms in the medical education sector, after replacing the MCI, which was tainted by corruption. The government had dissolved the MCI in 2018 following the corruption charges and replaced it with a Board of Governor(BoG).The NMC seeks to lay down policies for regulating medical institutions and medical professionals; assessing the requirements of human resources and infrastructure in healthcare; ensuring compliance by the State Medical Councils with the regulations made under the Bill; framing guidelines for determination of fee for up to 50% of the seats in the private medical institutions and to make guidelines for a new cadre of non-MBBS mid-level health service providers such as nurse practitioners and pharmacists with limited rights to prescribe Medicines. There is a dichotomy about Indian doctors or medical students graduating from various medical colleges. Indian doctors are revered all over the world but their status in the country itself is however questionable. Thousands graduate each year from medical colleges but there has been an abysmal low standard in terms of their quality, quantity and attitude. In the recent times what has been witnessed were many scandals about the modes of selection for entry to medical colleges, corruption in the selection process, fictitious candidature and an almost open process of payment of capitation fee. No year passes without litigation into the selection process with the Supreme Court having to intervene regularly. Demands for medical seats cannot be met with availability and it is therefore not surprising that private medical colleges are mushrooming, some with questionable credentials and means. There had been some arrests in the past and the most shocking was in 2010 when CBI arrested the then MCI chief for allegedly taking a Rs 2-crore bribe to approve a Punjab institute. As medical seats in the private sector began to be offered for up to Rs 50 lakh and money rather than merit became the criteria for admissions, it led to erosion of the public’s faith in the system. It didn’t matter if one did not qualify on merit to make it to medical college. What tipped the scales for thousands of those who could not qualify was the weight of their money in buying seats. As per WHO norms, India needs more medical doctors in the ratio of 1 doctor for every 1000 people. Presently, it has 1 doctor for every 1700 people. To achieve this target, India needs at least four lakh doctors by 2020-21.The government has also already granted permission to over 100 government district hospitals having 200-bedded capacity to be upgraded as medical colleges. Like all changes or renaming old ones, the government has reserved for itself to handpick those to head such institutes. The government could have reviewed and amended the IMC Act to streamline medical education instead of name changing to claim achievement with window dressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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