Several medical associations took up the issue of mandatory biometric attendance for doctors and faculty. Dr. Rohan Krishnan, national chairman of the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) said, “It is a good measure by the NMC to introduce attendance only once because many times doctors are busy in some work in the hospital, which requires his/her immediate attention as their priority is to save the lives of the patient.”The AEBAS was made mandatory by the NMC in its Minimum Requirements for Annual MBBS Admissions Regulations, 2020. According to Dr. Vanikar, the new portal will be linked with the ‘command and control centre’ of NMC per the regulations. Colleges have also been mandated to install cameras and to be linked with the IT system of NMC. She added that one of the major reason of mandating AEBAS was to revive the dignity of the medical profession. She said medical colleges were reluctant to follow the regulation. “They came up with several excuses such as the system is full of flaws or that older aged faculty were not able to register their attendance,” she said. However, she said, these issues were resolved by continuous interactions.
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