Rural MBBS course discriminatory, says NHRC
January 29th, 2010 - 8:16 pm ICT by IANS ( 4 comments )New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The health ministry’s plan to start a Rural MBBS course of three-and-a-half years to provide treatment in far-flung areas will create half baked professionals and will be discriminatory in nature, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Friday.
“This step would be discriminatory to both the people who get treatment from such half baked professionals and also to the medical students who take eight to 10 years to become specialist doctors,” NHRC member P.C. Sharma said at a conference of state health secretaries.
As rural areas are facing a severe shortage of doctors, the health ministry has plans to introduce the three-and-a-half years MBBS course, to replace the traditional five years course.
The ministry believes that these doctors will provide treatment to millions at sub centres that operate under the primary healthcare centres across India.
Sharma’s comment came in a specific reference to the suggestion of having short-term training of persons for deployment in rural areas as doctors, in the health secretaries meet convened by the NHRC.
He said: “People in rural areas are as much entitled to get treatment from fully qualified doctors as are (people) in the urban areas.”
At the meeting, several issues were discussed to improve overall healthcare in India, including illegal medical practice, spurious drugs and healthcare facilities in rural and tribal areas.
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January 30th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
1. There is an urgent need to have more doctors in rural and urban areas.
2. Only merit based selection should be there for admission.
3. five year MBBS course does not create good doctors. Those really interested in curing patients can pick up necessary knowledge and skills in 3 years, if they are good learners.
4. all private universities and pvt med colleges need very close inspection ( every quarter) by Govt and parents body or consumer forums, to ensure that quality education is there. Profiteering in pvt med. education is somewhat universal and it is creating money mongering doctors.
5. Govt must have courage to tax the rich to be able to finance medical education, so that doomed universities dont mushroom.
6. Present policy of Govt is abdication of responsibility, and amounts to byepassing the spirit of humanrights and the fundamental rights and the directive principles. Democracy would die in a pure capitalistic society, and only tokenism and lipservice to human rights may become the rituals.
November 26th, 2010 at 11:25 am
This course will be only for B.pharm candidate because those study the medicine 2 years regularly.
November 26th, 2010 at 11:27 am
B.pharm candidate can provide the better responce to the patient because those know how can dispense the drug.
November 26th, 2010 at 11:29 am
one another think unemployment will be dimnis for B.pharm course also government should take the urgent action on that point