Pakistani medical degrees leave Kashmir graduates without practice rights in India

Pakistani medical degrees leave Kashmir graduates without practice rights in India

Doctors and medical students who receive their degrees through Pakistani universities can face bureaucratic hurdles and stigmaOriginally published on Global VoicesA doctor processes a radioactive material in a confined lab at the Nuclear Medicine department in the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Kashmir. Picture from Syed Ahmad Rufai. Used with permission. A sense of palpable fear overwhelms her, cracking her voice, as Asma (a pseu…

Pakistani medical degrees leave Kashmir graduates without practice rights in India - Kashmir Media Service

AHMAD RUFAI A sense of palpable fear overwhelms her, cracking her voice, as Asma (a pseudonym) talks of her experiences over a WhatsApp call. She fears the consequences of sharing her journey with a revealed identity. For the past three years, Asma has checked the Indian National Medical Commission’s (NMC) website every day for updates on her eligibility certificate. A recent graduate of the Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences for …