Rural healthcare in India has been a real concern, still in 2017. Due to many reasons, government has failed to implement proper healthcare facility in most of the rural areas. Doctors always become the easy target whenever there is discussion about lack of healthcare facilities in rural India. Govt. and authorities quickly blames doctors that they don’t want to work in villages and bla bla. In india around 50000 doctors graduate every year and at least 30% are from rural areas themselves. The irony is even doctors originally from rural India doesn’t want to work in villages for long time, so there must be some reason why this is happening. Most Medical Officers either stop attending the PHC/CHC or leave the job altogether. After working in periphery for few months and talking to many doctors who are working and trying to work in villages i found out that many doctors are willing to work in villages and also start working there but due to a number of factors they l...
Recently NBE or the National board of examination started a new post graduate diploma course , the Post MBBS diploma in eight subjects, namely Radio-diagnosis, Obstetrics and gynecology, Pediatrics, ENT, Ophthalmology, Respiratory Medicine, Family medicine and Anesthesia. NBE is also credited to run post graduate degree courses named DNB aka Diplomat of National Board in few private and government hospitals. These DNB hospitals are accredited by NBE itself and are our of the purview of MCI or recently known as NMC (National Medical Commission). Why start a diploma course? In the last few years , we saw that MCI started converting all diploma courses run at various medical colleges to degree. The rationale being add one more year of training and you get a specialist doctor who can treat as well as teach. As per the norms , a diploma holder is not eligible for faculty position in medical educational institutes. But again NBE thought that start diploma again because we n...
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