Vision - 2015
My Comments & Suggestions on curriculum reforms
I, Dr. K. Kishore Kumar, 62 years, registered with the TCMC (Kerala) No. 7735 humbly submit the following before the Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India on the above topic – Vision -2015 as directed and once again humbly request those concerned to keep in mind that we the doctors in India are professionals and not bureaucrats or politicians.
The MCI, a statutory body, is there primarily to safeguard the interests of the members of the profession, their survival in an open society as in India, their integrity and service to the nation.
As directed by the MCI, a group of 8 doctors of the fraternity, came out with a proposal as required by the Health Minister Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad / BOG of MCI. The BOG has now invited the medical fraternity and so I am in the fray like a few others. The majority very ignorant of all these, as we have a very vibrant democracy.
When I joined Kasturba Medical College, Manipal in the late 60s the one major attraction was that the British Medical Council recognises KMC and that we can go to London without writing another exam. There were only a few Medical Colleges in India in those days enjoying that privilege.
Soon the BMC found out that medical graduates from India do not know where the liver is, in the human body and so decided to restrict entry of doctors from India to UK and in retaliation the GOI decided to derecognise the MRCP, FRCP, FRCS, etc., of the UK.
Things changed in the last 40 years, and all the best brains in the profession are in foreign countries. Some with patriotism are held up here and rotting.
The new Health Minister Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad, with the blessings of the ousted MCI President Dr. Ketan Desai, decided to change the face of India in health care delivery and project it as the most advanced country in the world by reinventing the bare foot doctors of China. If political mileage was the motive of the minister, it was monetary for the other.
They (AK combination – Azad-Ketan) together invented the 3.5 year BRMS (Bachelor of Rural Medicine & Surgery) course, which was later renamed as BRHC (Bachelor of Rural Health Care) course to solve the shortage of doctors in rural India.
To stop the people from torpedoing the project in a democracy the AK combination tagged in Ms. Meenakshi Gautham and she filed the PIL in Delhi High Court - WPC 13208/2009 – and the Judgment dated 10.11.2010 was in favour of the Minister.
To keep the records clean for the Minister, the events of 2010 was a blessing and the BOGs came into MCI on 15 May 2010 and in one month they found out that medical education in India must be made more people friendly, and I am in it as part of a final formality – submitting this letter as my comments to save the medical profession.
After the reorganisation of the States in India in 1956, Kerala is still having one Act that has not been unified. The Medical Practitioners in Kerala are still governed by the “Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act”. However, to impress the outside world we have a website called http://www.medicalcouncil.
The politicians in Kerala decided to enact Kerala Medical Council Act in the 70s and unfortunately, the President of India was not in agreement with what he was asked to sign. Now, the leaders of the profession in Kerala and the politicians are waiting for an opportunity to have a President of India who cannot read or write.
The offending clause in the KMP Bill returned was that a Thasildhar could give a certificate permitting one to practise modern medicine. If the Hon’ble Health Minister had taken lessons from those in Kerala, he could have amended the MCI Act permitting every Village Officer to issue certificates to those in their good books to practice modern medicine and Medical Councils must honour those certificates and register them to be doctors of modern medicine. It is a pity to note that after Indiraji India is not having even a leader or minister with the minimal COMMON SENSE.
I humbly request the BOGs of the MCI, to accept the recommendations in the Vision 2015 document in toto for the following reasons –
1. In a few years, no Indian doctor will cross the shores of India in search of better pastures and all doctors here will learn how to live like an Indian.
2. All foreign countries will introduce entry exams for Indian doctors.
3. In retaliation, we can also ban all doctors with foreign degrees or education.
4. All the brilliant ones will go abroad for higher education and will never come back.
5. We can flood our institutions with quotas and no one will ask questions.
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Thanking You,
Yours faithfully,
Dr. K. Kishore Kumar, Kayamkulam
(This mail was posted to MCI on 5.1.2011 and the address was wrong and so my second attempt though late.)
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