The National Medical Commission (NMC) recently released rules for medical practitioners. Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar objected to the guidelines, saying that doctors cannot be made to work like bonded labourers or have their jobs compared to those of other professionals. She called the NMC guidelines “draconian” during the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address.
The National Medical Commission (NMC) recently released rules for medical practitioners. Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar objected to the guidelines, saying that doctors cannot be made to work like bonded labourers or have their jobs compared to those of other professionals. She called the NMC guidelines “draconian” during the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address.
Doctors cannot be asked to work like bonded labourers and their job cannot be compared with other professionals, Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said Friday, objecting to the recent guidelines issued by National medical Commission (NMC) for medical practitioners. Participating in the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, she termed the NMC guidelines as “draconian”.
According to the “Minimum Standard of Requirements for Postgraduate Courses-2023 (PGMSR-2023)” guidelines, it shall be mandatory to have at least 75 per cent attendance of the total working days for the required number of faculties.
The NMC since long has been reiterating the importance of Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system for faculty members in medical colleges.
“We are talking previously there were 7 AIIMS and less than 390 medical colleges in the country up to 2014, while in the last decade 16 AIIMS and 315 medical colleges have been established, but where are the faculty?” Dastidar asked.
“This NMC’s directive will further shrink the faculty sector. If NMC doesn’t withdraw its draconian direction we will not have enough have faculty. Doctors are not paid properly in the country and this regulation is like an added tension for them so more people will leave the jobs. The building is not the infrastructure, equipment and teachers are,” she said.
Meanwhile, Malook Nagar, BSP MP from Bijnore raised the demand for a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh.
“The litigants from western Uttar Pradesh have to go to Allahabad, they have to travel a day before, stay there and face inconvenience. There is an urgent for a high court bench in Western Uttar Pradesh or Meerut,” he said.
Source: Economic Times
