Almost everyone in the medical profession agrees that doctors should go to rural areas but they just don’t want to go themselves. For instance, Govt says an MBBS student cannot legally practice in rural areas. MBBS graduates say they don’t have sufficient experience to serve in rural areas. Postgraduate aspirants say where is the time to serve in rural areas when they are preparing for the so tough PG entrance tests. Postgraduate doctors say rural areas don’t have facility to allow them practice their specialised skills. MD and MS want DNB to serve in rural areas. Super specialists want family medicine graduates to serve in rural areas. Those who have already received medical training abroad and returned to India now want to make one-year rural posting compulsory for all doctors who want to go outside India and those who want to return to India and practice here. And they all are unanimous that non-MBBS must not be allowed to prescribe allopathic medicines. Looks like this will go on and on unless 50-seat mini medical colleges are opened in each district headquarters in the country with the provision that only those students who are registered in the same district voters list would be eligible for admission. Why it’s not happening? The government says it doesn’t have enough funds. And the Medical Professionals say where are the doctors to teach in those ‘rural’ medical colleges? But now MBBS doctors want the government to more than triple the postgraduate medical seats in the country and no one is asking where are the doctors to teach these additional 28,000 postgraduate medical students. But things are not going to be the same for long. Something or the other will happen, should happen, just for the sake of people living in rural and remote areas.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:25:17 +0000
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