The healthcare crisis in rural India is not a new chapter, in fact, it has been there for ages. However, in an attempt to fix the healthcare services in these parts of the country, the Parliamentary committee has now recommended the Department of Health and Family Welfare for the compulsory posting of doctors passing MBBS in the rural areas for three years. It also suggested that practitioners violating the rule may be de-registered and banned from undergoing medical practices for the deregistered period.
The post-graduate medical education in the country is all set for a radical change as the Board of Governors in Super-session of Medical Council of India have framed fresh rules for all PG students pursuing MD/MS in broad specialities in all medical colleges to undergo a compulsory residential rotation of three months in district hospitals or district health system as part of the course curriculum. Let’s look into the further details of the programme