By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
In a landmark development in the field of medical education, our Supreme Court has recently ruled that it is time to discard the decades old ‘both hands intact’ requirement for a candidate to be eligible to study medicine and become a doctor in our country. Accepting the one-member report filed by Dr. Satendra Singh, favouring the admission of a candidate with one arm to the MBBS course and rejecting the report of a five-member AIIMS medical board, which had held him ineligible, it has now directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to revise its outdated criteria, which in its own words, “reeks of glorifying ableism.”
