Tamil Nadu 
Medicos stage demonstration against BRMS course
UPSET: Thanjavur Medical College students protesting in Thanjavur on Thursday against the decision to start Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery course.
THANJAVUR/TIRUCHI: House surgeons and students of the Thanjavur Medical College and K.A.P.Viswanatham Government Medical College in Tiruchi staged demonstrations on Thursday in protest against the Centre’s move to introduce a three-and-a-half-year Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) programme.
The students owing allegiance to the Tamil Nadu Medical Students Association raised slogans against the move and urged the State Government not to allow the introduction of the programme in Tamil Nadu.
The agitating students, wearing black badges, staged the demonstration in front of the Annal Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital attached to the medical college in Tiruchi and in front of the medical college at Thanjavur.
The move, the students contended, would only result in bringing down the quality of rural health services and affect the prospects of the MBBS graduates.
Increase seatsThe students were also seeking an increase in the number of seats in the post-graduate medical programmes and recruitment of all doctors registered with the Employment Exchanges to fill up vacant posts in rural government hospitals.
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