HC issues notice on plea against extended MBBS internship TNN

 HC issues notice on plea against extended MBBS internship TNN

Apr 2, 2025, 16:50 IST

HC issues notice on plea against extended MBBS internship Bhopal/Jabalpur: The MP high court has issued notices to respondents in a petition challenging the extension of the MBBS internship period by a year. Petitioner Dr Narayan Raguvanshi from Vidisha, who completed his MBBS from China, argued that the sudden rule change was unjust. He had enroled in a Chinese medical college, but returned to India when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, completing his course through online classes. In the event of somebody obtaining an MBBS degree from abroad, one year of internship in a medical college of the state is compulsory for registration. During Covid outbreak, it was increased to two years but four months before completion of his internship, the period of internship was raised by another year. Arguing the case of the petitioner before a bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf, senior counsel Aditya Sanghi said rules of a game were not changed after the same had started. When the term of internship was two years when he started the internship course, Sanghi said, it should remain two year. It can't be extended by a year midway, he added. He further said the period of internship was increased to three years only in MP, everywhere else in the country it is two years.