A NEWLY DESIGNED MEDICAL COURSE TITLED "BACHELOR OF RURAL MEDICINE & SURGERY" HAVING THE SYLLABUS OF 13 MEDICAL SUBJECTS IN THE SPAN OF THREE AND HALF YEAR MODULAR STUDY & SIX MONTHS INTERNSHIP.
AIM:
TO CATER THE NEEDS OF BASIC HEALTH SERVICES OF RURAL INDIA,WHERE 70% OF POPLULATION RESIDES AND GROPING WITH VIRAL , TROPICAL VECTOR BORNE DISEASES.
TO PROVIDE THE FIRST AID TREATMENT AND PARENTERAL THERAPY IF NECESSARY.
MODALITY :
1.ADAPTING THE EXISTING DISTRICT HOSPITALS WHICH HAVE 150 TO 300 BED CAPACITY.ENROLMENT IS 25 STUDENTS FOR 150 BEDS AND 50 STUDENTS FOR 300 BEDS.
2.ENROLLING THE INTER / +2 STUDENTS STUDIED IN NOTIFIED RURAL REGIONS AS MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY.
3.RESTRICTING THESE "BRMS" GRADUATES TO WORK IN NOTIFIED RURAL REGIONS ONLY.
4. THEY CANT ENROLL IN REGULAR MEDICAL REGISTERS. THEY ARE NOT CALLED AS DOCTORS. THEY CAN'T PRACTISE IN NON RURAL AREAS. THEY CANT CONDUCT SURGERIES.
5.They will not be registered under "regular IMC register" but under a "separate register" and will need to get a yearly certification for the first five years after which they will be entitled for a permanent registration "under the rural register". For life they can only practice in a certified rural area only.
DEAR FRIENDS,
LOT OF DELIBERATIONS HAVE BEEN DONE IN CENTRAL COUNCIL MEET AFTER APT PRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT BY NONE OTHER THAN DR.KETAN DESAI . MAJORITY OF COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE AGAINST THIS CONCEPT.
Some of the points raised were
1. How can a doctors course be shorter than nurses cours
2. How can they be called doctor with a condensed course
3. Who will be able to stop their migration to other countries
4. How can one stop them from migrating to urban areas
5. When the country can not check quacks how will they check migration of rural doctors to urban areas
6. Why discriminate between rural and urban patients and give then doctors with condensed course.
7. Would it not amount to producing more quacks?8. Will the govt. also think of bringing condensed crash degree courses for pilots, lawyers, charted accountants?
I REQUEST YOUR VALUABLE OPINION ON THIS MATTER AND MAIL YOUR OPINION to --- CSRAJUENT@GMAIL.COM
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Friends,
greetings from tamil nadu!
This is a silly proposal to make up for huge lapses on the part of the Govt. which has a duty to make conditions good for professionals to work in rural areas, etc. If the Govt creates adequate infrastructure, including good roads, transport, schools, water, etc, and also provide adequate medicines, all types of trained staff, good medicines and other such things, why will many many more MBBS grads not opt to work in PHC's? Of course, they will flock to work there. The pay structure and also has to be ramped up much more to entice doctors to work in these areas. Massive development is required, and also massive spending on healthcare is required, to make the Fundamental Right of Healthcare for our citizens a reality, and not some shortsighted steps like these! Why will these so called rural "doctors""(who will not be called "doctors!!!!! what a joke!), stay in the rural areas? The will also work in rural areas near cities, and claim to be doing their duty! Suddenly there will be many more rural areas near cities!!! Many cities might even become changed into rural in designation!!!
Please stand up united and stop this shortsighted effort which will not end up helping the villages, and create massive confusion only!
Unity=Strength=IMA
rgds
dr girish kumar
president,
ima coimbatore branch, tamil nadu
(started in 1924)
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