Govt to make it mandatory from 2008-09 for all new MBBS graduates to serve in a rural area for one year as a pre condition for being granted permanent registration is commendable.
The rural posting will underpin NRHM (promise made in CMP)
Today upto 40% of doctors posted in primary and community health centers fail to turn up
This will decrease quackery which is flourishing due to lack of enough number of doctors in rural areas
In contrast to urban presence of allopath , 60% of 5.5 lakh practitioners of traditional medicals systems are in rural areas
Lot of other challenges many rural health centers lack infrastructure, diagnostic tools, drugs etc.
A move to make it mandatory for doctors to attend periodic CME-continuing medical education is highly laudable.
Some 70% of India’s 4.5 lakh + doctors and 80% of 6 lakh hospitals are in the urban areas.
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