MP’s panel backs rural posting for doctors

New Delhi | June 30 2011

A parliamentary panel has recommended having obligatory village posting for fresh medical graduates to help offer better health care in rural regions of the country. Members of the Parliamentary Consultative group on Health in its report said that this mandatory village posting was a must to battle lack of physicians in rural regions. They also demanded early beginning of Bachelor in Rural Health Care course to fight the crisis of doctors.

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