BIKASH CHOUDHURY
Draw your attention to the public position of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on "Rural MBBS course- Discriminatory". NHRC member Sri P.C.Sharma said 'People in rural areas are entitled treatment from fully qualified doctor’s just as urban areas’. THINK AGAIN: There is a saying 'some thing is better than nothing'. Mr. Sharma should cross check the ratio of doctors to population and again must ascertain how many qualified doctors are actually available in rural areas for consultation against actual requirement? How we can bridge the gap and in how many years in the current model of medical education and, knowing the reluctance of doctors to work in rural areas? Till such time, should we leave the rural folks in the hands of village Quacks? Again Mr. Sharma said 'Three & half year Rural MBBS course--half baked professionals'
THINK AGAIN: If we take a survey, will find rural folks mostly come to PHC
for basic treatments like: Dihorehea, General/Seasonal Fever, Stomach
Upset, Typhoid, Malaria, Burn injury, Accidental Trauma, Normal Child Birth
ect.. If we take inventory of Rural Health challenges and skill set required
to address the medical intervention then a Competent Group of Medical
Academic or MCI could design a full professional medical course of 3-1/2 Yrs for rural areas; however, in normal course the skill up gradation and competency improvement would continue formally and informally after graduation from such rural MBBS curriculum. The contention of half baked Professional of Mr. Sharma is an assumption of a conventional mindset, without actually considering the problem in its entirety and Immediate Solution. Further, NHRC should not be a stumbling block in the way of 'Better Rural Health System’. THINK AGAIN: Govt. proposal for short-term 3 1/2 years MBBS course for Rural Medical professional is the Right step in Right direction after a long time; therefore, without applying mind, NHRC should not scuttle a Progressive Policy for rural poor; whose interest NHRC professes to protect.
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