APMC meets NMC over FMGs' registration issue
The team submitted a representation to the NMC, detailing the demands of the FMGs and the rulebook followed by the APMC in issuing permanent registrations to FMGs. They sought a suitable response from the NMC to resolve the issue of permanent registration certificates for FMGs, who are currently on a protest demanding the certificates.
"The NMC sought individual data of the FMG students, APMC general body resolutions, and decisions, all of which were submitted to them in a written representation during our visit to NMC in New Delhi on June 9," APMC chairman Dr D Sree Hari Rao told TOI.
The APMC team visited the NMC on the directions of health minister Y Satya Kumara Yadav after the internships of the FMGs, through APMC counselling, were extended. This extension led to the FMGs launching a sudden strike by abandoning their duties and demanding the APMC immediately issue their permanent registration certificates in the state.
"We submitted all the details and particulars asked by the NMC. It is expected that the undergraduate medical education board of the NMC will meet next week to discuss all the issues raised by the APMC and send a communication regarding the FMGs' permanent registration in AP," a reliable source within APMC told TOI.
Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh high court gave a ruling in favour of FMG students in a case filed by one of the FMG students, identified as Katta Vamsi, in the high court.
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