The Supreme Court has noted that “over-ambitious parents” and “exploitative founders of infrastructure-deficient” colleges have led to the decline and commercialisation of medical education and upheld the National Medical Commission’s regulations that prescribe certain strictures before foreign medical graduates can practice in India.
The regulations had in the recent past been a point of debate with relation to Indian students who were forced to return due to the Ukraine crisis.
A Bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian, in a judgment in early May, upheld the regulatory validity of the National Medical Commission (Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate) Regulations 2021 and the National Medical Commission (Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship) Regulations of 2021.
