(IANS) The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has three problems with the government’s plan to create a special cadre of rural doctors through a truncated MBBS course, but the health ministry has refused to yield to its pressure and will push ahead on the subject as planned.

According to a top health ministry official, a seven-member delegation of the IMA met Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and apprised him of their reservations over plans for the rural doctors’ course. The IMA is the top doctors’ association in the country.

“The IMA has three problems with the plan,” a senior health ministry official told IANS.

“They want to call the new medical institutions for rural doctors as ’schools’ and not colleges, as planned by the ministry. They are also opposed to naming these four-year courses as degrees. The IMA wants these to be called diplomas and not degrees, as a normal MBBS course is of five-year duration,” the official said.

“The doctors’ association also wants a separate registration for these rural doctors,” the official added............click for more

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