pmr: Concerns raised over removal of PMR specialty from undergraduate MBBS curriculum

The Indian Affiliation of Bodily Drugs and Rehabilitation has written to the Union well being minister Mansukh Mandaviya elevating issues over the elimination of the specialty of bodily drugs and rehabilitation from undergraduate MBBS curriculum.

In response to the brand new tips issued by the Nationwide Medical Fee, three departments – Bodily Drugs and Rehabilitation (PMR), Respiratory Drugs, and Emergency Drugs – aren’t included within the checklist of departments that each medical faculty/establishment will need to have.

PMR is an unique medical specialty which treats and rehabilitates numerous Divyangjan sufferers with locomotor, neurological and numerous continual debilitating illnesses.

In response to the WHO report 2011, 1 out of seven folks endure from some or the opposite type of incapacity throughout the globe.
“This interprets right into a staggering determine of 1 Divyangjan in each alternate family. Including to those figures, there are paediatric and geriatric sufferers and others having non permanent and everlasting disabilities who require the companies from PMR. Thus, the significance of PMR is ubiquitous and shall not be mistaken as a service for the numerous 2.21% Divyangjan inhabitants said by Census 2011,” it stated in its letter.