The bill has been sent to a parliamentary standing committee following protests by doctors across the country claiming that the proposed legislation would "cripple" the functioning of medical professionals by making them completely answerable to the bureaucracy and non-medical administrators.
The committee has been asked to give its report before the Budget session of Parliament set to commence on January 29.
According to AIIMS resident doctors, the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill requires a complete makeover rather than amendments.
Discussion on the NMC Bill was organised by Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) of AIIMS and attended by the vice president of Delhi Medical Association and president Joint Action Council of Service Doctor Organisation (JACSDO) Dr Rajeev Sood, Delhi Medical Council registrar Dr Girish Tyagi.
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Representatives of RDA AMU, Aligarh, PGI Chandigarh, Lady Hardinge hospital, RML hospital were among those who attended the meeting.
They said there was no strict guideline in the Bill to regulate functioning of private medical colleges.
While welcoming the National Licentiate Examination (NLE), which all medical graduates will have to clear to get practising licences, as proposed in the Bill, the participants of the meeting claimed that there is no clear description on how will this exam will be conducted.
They opposed the Bill's proposal of allowing practitioners of alternative medicines, such as homoeopathy and ayurveda, practise allopathy after completing a "bridge course"