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The author missed the most important criticism of the NMC Bill. Under MCI, every new medical college needed to have infrastructure and staff before getting temporary recognition to admit students as well as permanent recognition after 5 successful inspections. Also, the staff salaries are determined by MCI.
Under the NMC, there is no preconditions or license approval or permissions on the infrastructure and staff required or the salaries they are paid. Anyone can open a medical college in a shed and higher a couple of teacher with meagre salaries and declare themselves as an ongoing medical college. Of course, there will be inspections under NMC but the inspection team or the NMC committee will not penalise or withdraw recognition. They will simply put their inspection reports on website for students to analyse and decide whether they want to join such a college. The college can still be run by the management and you will put out incompetent doctors.
College managements can go the other way too under the same set of rules. They can have good infrastructure and pay hefty salaries for teachers and incentives for patients by fleecing the students [since they can decide any amount of fees for 50% students] and then they can simply auction the degrees without proper training or examinations resulting in incompetent doctors.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NMC DOES NOT DO INSPECTIONS OF EXAMS CONDUCTED IN COLLEGES.
Once these half-baked doctors give NEXT and fail the exam, then the government will be forced to relax the pass criteria because after 5 years of training, the student cannot change his college unless he does the whole training programme of 5 years again [Already happened with medical colleges like Fathima Medical College, Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh].
Or the government will cancel the NEXT exam completely leaving the final exam again in the hands of the college management.
Please discuss the NMC BILL in detail with medical professionals who are aware of the problems. The media needs to study the matter with greater interest and put out in the public domain as well as actively participate in this. The number of doctors are very few in the country and no government will listen.
If the media as well as the common people are not going to listen to actual medical professionals just like the central government, then there is no choice but for medical professionals to take extreme steps.
These extreme steps are to protect the public from quacks and incompetent degree holders in the future.
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ARTICLE WITH THE INFORMATION I HAVE PROVIDED. YOU CAN READ THE WHOLE NMC BILL AND REALISE IT FOR YOURSELF. PLEASE INVOLVE YOUR EDITOR AS WELL AS OTHER NEWS OUTLETS. THERE ISN’T MUCH TIME.
Biggest issue is that NMC allows all without setting criteris to have community health providers to become doctors in rural areas, why not set criteria to do that, how will doctors who work nearly 5.5 years of their life to get a doctor degree warm up to competition who do bridge course of 2 years? So Govt is now recommending quacks in rural areas to prescribe medicine to less fortunate people of villages?
The author missed the most important criticism of the NMC Bill. Under MCI, every new medical college needed to have infrastructure and staff before getting temporary recognition to admit students as well as permanent recognition after 5 successful inspections. Also, the staff salaries are determined by MCI.
Under the NMC, there is no preconditions or license approval or permissions on the infrastructure and staff required or the salaries they are paid. Anyone can open a medical college in a shed and higher a couple of teacher with meagre salaries and declare themselves as an ongoing medical college. Of course, there will be inspections under NMC but the inspection team or the NMC committee will not penalise or withdraw recognition. They will simply put their inspection reports on website for students to analyse and decide whether they want to join such a college. The college can still be run by the management and you will put out incompetent doctors.
College managements can go the other way too under the same set of rules. They can have good infrastructure and pay hefty salaries for teachers and incentives for patients by fleecing the students [since they can decide any amount of fees for 50% students] and then they can simply auction the degrees without proper training or examinations resulting in incompetent doctors.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NMC DOES NOT DO INSPECTIONS OF EXAMS CONDUCTED IN COLLEGES.
Once these half-baked doctors give NEXT and fail the exam, then the government will be forced to relax the pass criteria because after 5 years of training, the student cannot change his college unless he does the whole training programme of 5 years again [Already happened with medical colleges like Fathima Medical College, Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh].
Or the government will cancel the NEXT exam completely leaving the final exam again in the hands of the college management.
Please discuss the NMC BILL in detail with medical professionals who are aware of the problems. The media needs to study the matter with greater interest and put out in the public domain as well as actively participate in this. The number of doctors are very few in the country and no government will listen.
If the media as well as the common people are not going to listen to actual medical professionals just like the central government, then there is no choice but for medical professionals to take extreme steps.
These extreme steps are to protect the public from quacks and incompetent degree holders in the future.
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ARTICLE WITH THE INFORMATION I HAVE PROVIDED. YOU CAN READ THE WHOLE NMC BILL AND REALISE IT FOR YOURSELF. PLEASE INVOLVE YOUR EDITOR AS WELL AS OTHER NEWS OUTLETS. THERE ISN’T MUCH TIME.
Biggest issue is that NMC allows all without setting criteris to have community health providers to become doctors in rural areas, why not set criteria to do that, how will doctors who work nearly 5.5 years of their life to get a doctor degree warm up to competition who do bridge course of 2 years? So Govt is now recommending quacks in rural areas to prescribe medicine to less fortunate people of villages?