The World Medical Association (WMA) has written to the Parliamentary Standing Committee that it MUST NOT replace the MCI with NMC. The WMA President opines that “there is absolutely no evidence from anywhere in the world that the regulation of a profession is better done by government” The NMC bill was tabled in parliament in December 2017, but it was sent to Parliamentary Standing Committee owing to nationwide protest of doctors against the bill.
The WMA said that “ A shift from a democratically-elected, autonomously-governed body to a politically-established and government-directed body would be counterproductive for patients and for furthering the development of medical profession in India .” The WMA also warned that India already suffers from brain drain and if the NMC Bill is passed, more Indian doctors would be forced to head out of the country. The doctors had major objections…
