Doctors have claimed that several students with disabilities have been denied admissions to MBBS due to ‘Guidelines for Persons with Specified Disabilities’ framed by the MCI. As per the Right of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, a group of 75 ‘doctors with disabilities’ have written a letter to the Union health ministry asking to reject the discriminatory MCI guidelines. They have claimed that MCI has framed these guidelines without consulting any doctor with disabilities.
The doctors have urged health minister to, “ instruct MCI to reframe the guidelines as per the best practices in other countries and in consultation with doctors with disabilities as well as organisations working among persons with disabilities ”. The doctors have also pointed out that, an expanded committee on disability was constituted by MCI as per the directions of the health ministry. This committee…
