The WB state health department is keen to introduce taekwondo training for students in government medical colleges and hospitals across Bengal. After NRS hospital, RG Kar and Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital too have shown interest in introducing taekwondo on the campus and the health department is having discussions on the modalities to introduce this Korean martial art to medical students, not only for self-defence, but also for discipline and character-building. Already, in a first-of-its-kind initiative in any government-run hospital in the country, a group of over 100 doctors of NRS hospital are taking taekwondo training twice a week from early this year.
Close on heels, AIIMS in Delhi has introduced self-defence classes on the campus including taekwondo for its resident doctors. State director of medical education (DME) that in Kolkata, RG Kar Hospital and CNMC have…
