Finally some good news from Medical council of India.
Is it because of the talk of dissolving the MCI and forming a new body, we never know, but I think it has rattled MCI.
Some initiatives which should be appreciated are :
MCI has removed the main bottleneck by recognizing the post-graduation and other degrees of 5 specific countries viz, Us, UK, Australia , Canada and New Zealand. These move brings back 5000 NRI doctors back to India. They can tech here in Govt or Private colleges and hospitals. They can setup their own medical colleges too. MCI has went a step ahead and recognized even the working experience in the foreign land. So the professor in UK will be a professor in India too.
These is a great move in the sense that not only it brings the great pool of advanced knowledge and experience in India but also the number of treating doctors. Secondly it will definitely increase the competition ( Healthy ) among various hospitals.
hello my dear fren.... There are already so many doctors from these countries in india .they are practising,operating doing all type of work here ,even performing surgeries on the PM .They are well recognised and i am not sure whether such move would be a great help . Instead govt should work on the development of indian institutes , develope more AIIMS like centres, strengten the health insurance sector , more and more research work . that will attract good doctors to return to india. do we have a system for research,trials in india as in US? i hope Govt would develope the system and infrastructure for work in india....
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Atul,
ReplyDeleteDo not know why; I have a gut feeling that you work in a multi-specialty hospital or are a super-specialist. I may be wrong though.
I just cannot help myself but laugh out loud with the suggestion of opening up more big ivory-towers of diseases.
When the UK, the USA, Canada and Australia are thriving on GPs, we Indians having a traditional mindset and not willing to change are stuck with the concept of opening up more bigger hospitals.
Bhore committee's recommendations are yet to be implemented fully!
When the developed countries are crying for primary care (so is appealing the WHO), we Indians are typical in showing our attitude. And, this is no fault of ours. We developed that way.
In this NEJM article, the role of primary care has been reemphasized:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/26/2693?ijkey=5d9cd9db24300204310ea7b18ade019e4787111f&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
The need of the hour is family practitioners or the GPs in India to serve the mass.
I firmly agree your advice of strengthening the 'existing' health sector.
And the need to have "our very own Indian data". Blindly following has so far kept us in the dark.
Regards,
Bipin