NEW DELHI: Discarding the decades-old ‘both hands intact’ requirement for aspiring doctors, the Supreme Court on Friday said it “reeks of glorifying ableism” and directed National Medical Commission (NMC) to revise the outdated criteria to enable persons with disabilities (PwD) to pursue MBBS course.
Accepting Dr Satendra Singh’s report favouring admission to a PwD candidate and rejecting the report of a five-member AIIMS medical board declaring him unfit to pursue MBBS course, a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan asked NMC to report the progress in revising the eligibility criteria by March 3. Dr Singh, part of the five-member board, had given a separate…