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NEET, NEXT exams: Key features of NMC Bill 2019

Doctors and medicos say the Bill will promote quackery as it allows non-MBBS graduates to become licensed practitioners.

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National Medical Commission, NMC Act 2019 was recently passed by the two houses of Lok Sabha. Soon after its passage, the Indian Medical Association, IMA called for protests across the country, following whih healthcare services at government run hospitals across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were paralyzed, Thursday, August 9.

The 24-hour-long strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) began at 6 a.m., adding to the hardships of poor patients in the government hospitals where the healthcare services remained affected due to strike by junior doctors for over a week.

Doctors and medicos say the Bill will promote quackery as it allows non-MBBS graduates to become licensed practitioners. They believe the Bill would affect the quality of medical education and thereby working against the interests of the poor.

Here are some of the key features of the NMC Act 2019

  • NEXT would take the place of NEET PG and the latter would be scrapped, with no caps on the number of attempts for the NEXT Examination.
  • Regarding Community Health Providers, Harsh Vardhan said, “A misconception is being spread that the provision for community health providers has been made to legalize quacks. On the contrary, punishment for quackery has been enhanced to up to 1 year imprisonment& up to ₹5 lakhs fine.”
  • Qualifications for CHPs would be regulated by the eminent doctors of NMC, CHPs would have to have a basic understanding of modern medicine and would not be dealing with alternative system of medicine.
  • Not much of changes are proposed for the undergraduate admission test – NEET and the exam is expected to remain in much of the same form.
  • NMC provides for the regulation of fees and other charges in half of the seats in private colleges, deemed to be Universities.

NMC Bill 2019: Doctors’ strike affect health services in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

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