File picture of students who returned from medical faculties in Ukraine and their dad and mom staged a dharna pleading that the Indian authorities make preparations to allow students proceed their medical training in India.
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A government-appointed committee chaired by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has positioned earlier than the Supreme Court a “one-time option” for medical students who’ve returned from war-torn Ukraine and China of their penultimate 12 months of research and continued their training by on-line courses.
The Centre, represented by Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, agreed with the court docket that the students posed a “humane problem”.
The affidavit filed by the Centre stated the committee has proposed that students could also be supplied a single likelihood to clear the MBBS Final, each principle (Part I) and sensible (Part II) examinations as per the National Medical Commission (NMC) syllabus and pointers with out being enrolled in any of the present Indian medical faculties or universities.
“They can give and clear the examination within a period of one year. Part I followed by Part II after one year. Part II will be allowed only after Part I is cleared,” the affidavit stated.
The affidavit stated the speculation examination might be performed centrally and bodily on the sample of the Indian MBBS examination and sensible might be performed by some designated authorities medical faculties assigned the accountability.
“After clearing these two exams, they would have to complete two years of compulsory rotary internship, first year of which will be free and the second year paid as has been decided by the NMC for previous cases,” the affidavit stated.
“This will be a strictly one-time option and not become a basis for similar decisions in future,” it underscored.
The affidavit stated that the committee was fashioned on December 30, 2022 beneath the chairpersonship of DGHS together with representatives of the National Medical Commission; Ministries of Home, External Affairs and Health to discover “some possible solution for the problem”.
It stated that States, throughout consultations, had voiced their reservation on the standard of training and coaching the overseas medical graduates might need acquired overseas.
The States had additionally expressed reservations about accommodating them in faculties halfway in the course of the medical 12 months.
