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Supreme Court Issues Notice in Plea by Foreign Medical Graduates Seeking Direction Mandating their Induction in Healthcare Workforce in Wake of Covid

Lawstreet Journal 4 Jun 2021 9:56pm

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The Supreme Court on June 1, 2021, sought the response of the Central government on a plea seeking directions to induct foreign medical graduates (FMGs) into the healthcare workforce of the country to increase the ailing healthcare system.

A division Bench of Justice Nageswara Rao and Justice Aniruddha Bose gave notice returnable in two weeks, after hearing submissions of Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal, showing up for the petitioner.

During the hearing, Senior counsel Kapil Sibal stated that there are 4 categories of foreign medical graduates:

  • Those who've cleared the exam, done their internship but are not getting registered with the National Medical Council and State Medical Councils owing to procedural formalities.
  • Those who've cleared the exam but have not been able to do an internship.
  • Those who have secured 110 marks instead of 150 which is the minimum. He added that for this situation, the plea is that the government may be asked to consider decrease the marks as was done at the time of NEET.
  • Those who haven't given the exams, and haven't cleared too. They are willing to function and help in these covid times.

The petition was filed by Advocate Astha Sharma on behalf of three associations comprising Association of MD Physicians, All India Foreign Medical Graduates Association, and Russian Medical Graduates association.

The petition sought a one-time exemption for FMGs from taking foreign medical graduate exam (FMGE) and prayed that they be inducted into the COVID-19 workforce to expand the health infrastructure of the country.

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