NMC has given permission to medical students who have returned from abroad to complete their internship in India without completing the internship, but this will not give relief to all the students who have returned from Ukraine.
A large number of Indian medical students have returned home or are returning from Ukraine scorching in the fire of war. Those students who came back safely after overcoming all the difficulties amidst the fire of war raining from the sky, they are lucky. But apart from parents and relatives at home, a new difficulty is also waiting for many students. Especially those who have returned home after leaving their medical studies incomplete. This is because whatever medical studies he had done in Ukraine till now, it has no meaning in India according to the current rules.
Even if a student has completed four or five years out of five-and-a-half year MBBS course in Ukraine, this study has no value in his own country as per the current rules. If he wants to complete his further education by staying here, then he will once again have to stand on the first rank. This is not only a waste of the student’s time, hard work and money of his/her parents, but it also leads to a loss of national resources in a country suffering from shortage of doctors.
What does Digvijay Singh want from the Prime Minister?
Senior Congress leader and MP Digvijay Singh has raised this problem of Indian students who have returned from Ukraine. He has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that medical students coming from Ukraine should be given the facility to complete their studies in Indian medical colleges. But at the same time another news also came that students who had to return to the country after completing their medical studies abroad without completing their internship, would be allowed to complete their internship in India. At first glance, it may seem that the issue raised by Digvijay Singh has probably been resolved. But on looking deeply at the whole matter, a different picture appears.
How much relief will the NMC announce?
In fact, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has announced that students who have completed their graduation in medicine from an institute abroad, but have not been able to complete the internship, are allowed to complete the internship in India with certain conditions. Will go Some students will get relief from this announcement, but students who have not completed their graduation will not get any benefit from it. That is, his medical studies so far are in danger of going completely useless.
Ukraine’s medical colleges will not start soon even if the war stops
In these circumstances, those issues become even more important, which Digvijay Singh has raised in his letter to the Prime Minister. In his letter, he has written, “The crisis of thousands of students of India studying in Ukraine is increasing day by day. Even after the intervention of the United Nations, there is no possibility of a ceasefire at the moment. In such a situation, students who went to Ukraine for medical education are worried about their future. Educational institutions have also been damaged in Russian attacks. Therefore, even if the ongoing war in Ukraine ends, there is no possibility of opening medical colleges there soon.
Government should teach students returned from Ukraine at their own expense
In view of these circumstances, Digvijay Singh has demanded in a letter to the Prime Minister that “Keeping in view the future of these thousands of students who are getting ready to serve the country in the medical field, the Government of India should make a special plan for the students who have returned from Ukraine.” And get such students admitted in MBBS course in all the government as well as private medical colleges running in the country. The fees of all such students should be deposited by the Government of India on their behalf. Since the family of these students has already spent huge amount in the name of admission.. and these middle class families do not have the capacity to educate their children in private medical colleges of the country.
Government should give relief to the students by taking a policy decision
The Congress Rajya Sabha MP has requested the Prime Minister that in the current circumstances, the Government of India should relax the rules keeping in mind the public interest and by running a campaign under the “Indigenous Medical Students Admission Scheme back from Ukraine” to all the students according to their convenience. Needed. He has expressed the hope that the government will give relief to the students and parents by taking a policy decision in this regard to remove the darkness hovering over the future of more than 20 thousand medical students.
There is no way to complete incomplete studies in NMC circular
In his letter, Digvijay Singh has talked about removing the problems of all those students, who have been forced to leave their studies in the middle of their studies due to the war in Ukraine and return to India. Whereas the circular of the National Medical Commission talks about giving relief to only those students, who have returned after leaving the internship midway after completing their graduation. The NMC circular said, “Some medical students studying abroad have not been able to complete their internship due to the COVID-19 pandemic or war-like situation. Keeping in view the difficulties and difficulties of these students, they may be allowed to complete the remaining part of their internship in India.”
What are the current rules applicable in the country?
In fact, under the existing rules, students pursuing medical studies abroad have to complete a 12-month internship in the same institution where they are studying. After this, on returning to India, they have to pass the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE). After passing this exam, they have to do a 12-month internship in India again and then they can register themselves as a doctor in India permanently. The NMC may have given some relaxation in the rules for internship, but many commission officials have clearly told the Indian Express that any student should be transferred to a college in any other place to complete his studies in a medical college in India or some other place. It is not expected to be provided.
The solution to such a problem was in the guidelines of the year 2002.
Surprisingly, in the 2002 guidelines implemented in the country, there was a facility to transfer students to another institution in unusual circumstances like war or unrest. But according to the Indian Express, no such provision has been kept in the new guidelines implemented in November last year. In the new guidelines, the facility of transfer of a student to another medical college has not been given. It is worth noting that in the year 2020, the Central Government had entrusted the responsibility of regulating medical education in the country to NMC by abolishing the Medical Council of India (MCI).
An official also told the Indian Express that the NMC’s circular issued on Friday was not actually brought in view of the situation arising out of the Ukraine war. This decision had already been taken. Is this the reason that a complete solution to the situation arising out of the Ukraine war is not visible in this circular?
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