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Private docs call off strike as NMC Bill goes to Parliamentary Standing Committee

Private docs call off strike as NMC Bill goes to Parliamentary Standing Committee

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 03 Jan 2018, 02:46 pm

New Delhi, Jan 3 (IBNS) : Private doctors on Tuesday called off their strike, held under the banner of the  Indian Medical Association (IMA), in  protest against the National Medical Commission Bill, 2017, agreeing to wait till the Parliament's standing committee takes a decision on it, reports said.

The NMC Bill envisages a four-tier structure for the regulation of medical education with a 20-member apex body comprising five doctors and Government officials.

Doctors disagreed to be answerable to bureaucrats.

The NMC Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha today by Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday.

The bill seeks to allow practitioners of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, to practice modern medicine once they complete a short term "bridge" course.

The IMA has termed the National Medical Commission as draconian and undemocratic.

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