Medical experts say Modi's wish to offer medical education in mother tongue impractical
Hours later after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that medical and technical education must be taught in the mother tongue, the doctors and other experts have said it is impractical and not feasible.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reiterated that medical and technical education must also be taught in the mother tongue but the doctors and various other experts opine otherwise.
The medical experts are saying that this is impractical and not feasible. They also contended that any such proposal was not well thought out, as reported by Indian Express.
On the occasion of Jan Aushadhi Diwas, PM Modi said, “Students will be able to study medical and technical education in their mother tongue so that the poor, middle-class and lower-middle-class children who haven’t taken English in schools will also be able to become doctors.”
He also said in Assam on Sunday that he has a dream of setting up at least one medical college and technical institution in each state that will provide education in the local language.
Medical experts say education in mother tounge not feasible
Dr Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, a former member of the Medical Council of India, said, “India is a multilingual nation. We will have to standardise the words so that it means the same in other local languages too. I am not able to understand what goal will be achieved by doing this. The government’s move is a very impractical one.”
Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) national president Dr Rohan Krishnan said, “National Medical Commission (NMC) allows students, who have done MBBS from six English speaking countries, to practice medicine in India without a screening test. This shows that they also understand that quality medical education can only be provided and accepted when done in English.”
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