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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Doctors call Tuesday shutdown over bill -GS Mudur

Doctors call Tuesday shutdown over bill -GS Mudur

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published Published on Jan 1, 2018   modified Modified on Jan 1, 2018
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: India's largest association of doctors today called for a 12-hour nationwide shutdown of outpatient and routine services on Tuesday to protest against a bill that proposes a new regulatory structure to replace the corruption-tainted Medical Council of India.

The Indian Medical Association, seeking to intensify its opposition to the National Medical Commission 2017 bill tabled by the Union health ministry in Parliament on Friday, has asked doctors to provide "only emergency and critical care services" between 6am and 6pm on January 2.

Senior IMA office-bearers spent a part of New Year's Eve preparing for a meeting with the Union health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda and senior health officials on Monday where they hope to articulate their concerns about multiple provisions in the bill.

"The bill in its present form is anti-people and anti-poor," Ravi Wankhedkar, the IMA's national president, told The Telegraph. "Provisions in the bill will increase costs and lower standards of medical education. They will also increase the scope for corruption."

The bill proposes the creation of a national medical commission and four autonomous medical boards to oversee education, assessment and rating of medical institutions, ethics and regulation.

The proposed national medical commission will fix fees for only 40 per cent of seats in private medical colleges which, Indian Medical Association officials has pointed out.

"This will allow private colleges to raise fees for 60 percent of their seats," said Shivkumar Utture, professor of surgery at the Grant Medical College, Mumbai, and a member of the IMA, which has a nationwide membership of nearly 276,000 doctors.

"What is the use of a single national entrance exam for entry into medical colleges if candidates who are high on merit just cannot afford seats in private colleges because they are too expensive?"

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The Telegraph, 1 January, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/doctors-call-tuesday-shutdown-over-bill-197801


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