Foreign medical graduates struggle to get internships

With a doctor shortage and thousands trained in India going abroad every year, you would think India would welcome the prospect of an annual addition of a few thousand of them. Yet, 3,000 to 6,000 foreign medical graduates (FMGs) who clear the screening test annually struggle to get internships, which are must for them to be allowed to practise in India.
Earlier, FMGs were allowed to do internships in identified private hospitals, government hospitals and medical college hospitals. For instance, in Delhi, private hospitals like B L Kapur and Gangaram and government hospitals, including Deen Dayal Upadhyay, ESI and Northern Railway hospital, would take interns.
But on November 18 last year, the National Medical Commission (NMC) issued a notification.