Student org sees red as NMC says no new medical colleges in south

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) has condemned the National Medical Council’s (NMC’s) guidelines to south Indian states to not open new private and government medical colleges, demanding that the order be withdrawn.

AIDSO State Secretary Ajay Kamath said that the reasoning offered that the southern states already had more medical colleges and seats in proportion to their population compared to the rest of the country was unacceptable.

“AIDSO Kar nataka State Committee appeals to the NMC to immediately withdraw this order and urges upon all doctors, medical students and all those who are concerned about saving the health system in the country to come forward and oppose this order,” Kamath said.

“NMC has issued a guideline to south Indian states not to start any new medical colleges in their respective states. The AIDSO Karnataka State Committee condemns this direction of NMC which is an attack on the medical education and health system,” he said.