The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has forwarded a plea under the Right to Information (RTI) Act that sought details of the gazetting of regulations related to medical interns, to the National Medical Commission (NMC).
The Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) of the NMC put the draft regulations on the Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship dated April 21, 2021, in the public domain on May 7, 2021, seeking comments. K.V. Babu, a Kannur-based ophthalmologist and RTI activist, submitted his comments related to Clause 6.3 related to stipend for interns on May 24, 2021, through email to the UGMEB.
The NMC gazetted the regulations on November 18, 2021, ignoring his comments. One of his suggestions was to change the clause as “All the candidates pursuing compulsory rotating internship at the institution from which MBBS course was completed shall be paid stipend on par with the stipend being paid to the interns of the State Government Medical Institution/ Central Government Medical Institution in the State/Union Territory where the institution is located.”
