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Are compulsory rural postings for medical students needed to revamp health centres?

  • 14/01/2008

Are compulsory rural postings for medical students needed to revamp health centres? Doctors in 12 states went on strike in the first week of December protesting mandatory rural posting. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare came up with the proposal in July. A Ramadoss, the health minister, had said then that undergraduate medical students would need to take up rural posting for a year