Everyone is excited about the fact that the Medical Council of India (MCI) is being scrapped and that the Government is setting up a brand new National Medical Commission ( NMC). We all acknowledge that the Indian medical system is broken because it is riddled with corruption. The hope is that a new broom will help to clean up some of the illnesses which riddle the ailing healthcare system so that we can start afresh , and hopefully do a better job this time around. This is why there's so much optimism that this change will enable us to get a better system.
The truth is that we're fooling ourselves. GIGO ( garbage in = garbage out) still applies , and as long as we continue to allow reservations within the medical education system, nothing will improve. We reserve over 50% of medical undergraduate and postgraduate seats for people whose forefathers used to be economically disadvantaged,…
