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The Doctors’ Association for Social Equality (DASE) and Tamil Nadu Medical Students’ Association - Foreign helping has demanded that 20 % of the full seats for Compulsory Medical Rotating Internship (CMRI) successful aesculapian colleges should beryllium allocated to doctors who person completed their aesculapian acquisition overseas and they should beryllium granted support to acquisition CMRI grooming successful territory authorities hospitals too.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday, the associations said that the Tamil Nadu Medical Council’s (TNMC) hold successful implementing the National Medical Commission’s 2022 support for Foreign Medical Graduates (FMG) grooming successful territory hospitals is condemnable and should beryllium rectified immediately.
The associations besides demanded that the State authorities reinstate support to let FMGs to acquisition CMRI grooming successful its 11 caller aesculapian colleges. TNMC indispensable instantly halt the excessive delays successful issuing Provisional Eligibility Certificates to FMGs and indispensable halt treating them with “neglect, discrimination, and indignity”.
Action indispensable beryllium taken to code unit shortages astatine the TNMC and assistance centres should beryllium established astatine the nationalist and State levels to assistance Tamil Nadu students studying medicine abroad. To emphasise these demands, an attention-seeking hunger protestation volition beryllium held successful Chennai connected January 6, 2026.
Among different demands, DASE urged the Union authorities to wantonness its determination to enforce National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for paramedical courses and to abolish the postulation of tuition fees from aesculapian students belonging to SC/ST categories.
