Foreign medical graduates have appealed to the Health Ministry for intervention to get their certificate of permanent registration from the respective State Medical Councils (SMC) without which these doctors cannot work in India, despite having completed their course and subsequent one-year internship.
The problem for these students started when they were forced to return to India during the COVID pandemic. After passing the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE) and despite having completed their compulsory internship as mandated by the National Medical Commission (NMC) — as per the previous guidelines — a notice that was issued on July 28, 2022, was being enforced retrospectively, they complained.
