IMA asks doctors to take up community service

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) today appealed to doctors to take up mandatory community service to understand the social context of health care.
"Community participation is an important component of medical professionalism. Community volunteerism offers opportunities to professionals to understand health in a social context and address the social detriments of good health care.
"IMA wants to foster this concept of civic responsibility and teamwork amongst medical professionals. The association is advocating one hour of mandatory community service a week," IMA national president K K Aggarwal said.
"As an effort to give back to the community, IMA advocates that every Friday, between 4pm and 5 pm every medical organisation be involved in community work," Aggarwal said.