The proposed introduction of the
three-and-a-half-year degree course in community medicine by the Medical
Council of India(MCI) has created an uproar amongst the doctors
including Karnataka Government Medical Officers Association(KGMOA) and
Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)
fraternity in Indore.
On
one hand where KGMOA claims that the new course will only generate more
quacks, the AYUSH fraternity is concerned about the contradiction as
students with allopathic and AYUSH degrees are already doing the same
work.
Opposing the B Sc in
community health course that will be started from April next year,
KGMOA President Dr HN Ravindra said instead of increasing the number of
public health centres(PHCs) or number of under-qualified doctors, there
should be more MBBS doctors to serve rural areas.
President
of the Indian Medical Association-MP branch Dr Dilip Acharya said,
"Nearly one lakh AYUSH doctors in the country are unemployed and the new
course will only lead to resentment within the community. Union
government should rather train unemployed AYUSH doctors for six months
and allow them to work to meet scarcity of medical officers in rural
areas."
he AYUSH medical
officer association too is apprehensive about the new course. They said
the government should give preference to people who have knowledge about
medicine and body physiology and train them for better utilization of
human resources. "A large number of people with AYUSH degrees are
already unemployed. Government should initiate action to provide job
avenues to them first," said Dr S D Jadhav, president, AYUSH medical
officer
association.source:http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-kgmoa-ayush-fraternity-slams-mcis-new-medical-course-3841841-NOR.html
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