Srinagar, Mar 25: Doctors Associate Kashmir (DAK) protested against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2017 at Press Colony here on Sunday.
The NMC Bill seeks to allow practitioners of Ayurveda and other traditional medicine to practice modern medicine once they complete a short-term “bridge course”.
President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik, while addressing the protest, said, “For instance, it takes 15 years to become an allopathic doctor. How can a one-year bridge course allow one prescribe medicines and treat patients?”
“Tomorrow, they will provide bridge-course to a zoology doctor and make him an allopathic doctor as well? This is not the right way to address the shortage of human power,” he said, terming the bridge course as “illegal”.
Naik said that rather than spending on bridge courses, the government should invest in bringing up Medical colleges and also look after equipping District Hospitals across Kashmir.
The DAK also protested against the other clause of NMC Bill that allows the private colleges to decide their own fee structure.
The doctors all across India have been staging a protest demanding the scrapping of NMC Bill.
