Right Move or Wrong Move

In the yesterday’s Dharna, my presence was criticized by many of the doctors who said that why IMA is always against whatever new the Ministry of Health wants to start.

IMA is not anti-government but represents the best interests of the medical professionals. IMA has appreciated the way Ministry of Health is fighting for the cause of medical students by bringing NEET examination and now deciding to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the Supreme Court decision of abolishing NEET examination.

IMA also has appreciated the move of Ministry of Health from the media reports where they have conveyed that they may go even up to the extent of bringing a legislation to bring NEET back.

As far as making rural posting compulsory before getting a PG is concerned, it is not practical and will end up with more corruption.

Bringing NEET examination is a clear indication that the present health minister is against any type of corruption but we feel that making rural posting compulsory before PG examination will add more corruption as the number of government jobs are lesser than the number of doctors who are ready to appear for PG examination.  There are 1 lakh doctors we have for PG entrance with only 12000 clinical PG seats.

We apprehend if this is made compulsory to get a rural posting there will be an unofficial capitation fee also.

We also fail to understand as to why a rural posting is not made compulsory for persons who do PG from outside India and only for PG students who want to do PG in India. Why this discrimination?

We are sure that the present Board of Governor and the Ministry of Health, Government of India will rethink about their decision of rural posting on merit.