NMC Bill will be the mother of quackery: TMC MP and IMA chief Santanu Sen

For the last several months, the Union government was indirectly controlling the MCI through a board of governors, says Sen

Santanu Sen is a doctor and a Trinamool Congress MP in the Rajya Sabha, and heads the Indian Medical Association (IMA). In an interview to Aditi Phadnis, he talks of his reservations about the National Medical Commission Bill. Edited excerpts:

You made your maiden speech about the National Medical Commission and you slammed the government’s proposal to make medical education uniform across India. Now, doctors across the country are on strike in protest. Why?

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