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| Doctors say no to Azad's move | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, June 18: Doctors all over the country are going to be up in arms against Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's move to raise a separate rural healthcare corps by introducing a three-and-half-year-long medical course - Bachelor of Rural Healthcare Course, or BRHC -- focusing on training to meet the needs of rural healthcare.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) which is the largest body of trained physicians and surgeons with memberships from throughout the country has given a call for a dharna on June 28 to resist the Health Ministry' move. Association's honorary secretary general Dr Dharam Prakash has also called upon doctors to wear black badges from June 28 to register their protest against what he called as a "discriminatory, unjust and unfair practice" being introduced by the Government.
In case the Government does not relent the doctors may resort to strike all over the country, say the IMA top brass, arguing that the policy to bifurcate medical education in the name of rural healthcare could be disastrous since there could not be a replacement to the existing five-year-long MBBS course as the disease and afflictions do not differentiate between village and city dwellers.
To counter Azad's argument that rural doctors aimed to be trained by Government would take care of minor ailments like fever and headache, doctors say headache does not differentiate between villagers and city-bred gentry and so there should not be two sets of professionals to treat what the Minister or Government may think to be minor affliction but could well be an indication to something worse and more serious.
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