NHS jobs brought good and a chance to pursue higher studies

He said: “This could be a false propaganda against doctors from India. Different facts could emerge after investigations. At the moment, I do not believe that two students from our college were involved in terror attacks.” Dr. Ramesh was reacting to detention of two doctors Mohammed Haneef in Australia and Sabeel Ahmed in the U.K.

The NHS, it is learnt, became popular among doctors in India and Pakistan, particularly between 1995 and 2002.

Not only did the NHS give them good pay packets but it enabled them to pursue their postgraduate studies in United Kingdom.

Dr. Prashanth, a postgraduate student in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College, told The Hindu that migrating to the U.K. was the first option for a large number of undergraduate medical students from Bangalore as they had limited optio ns in India. At a time when salary structure was low, Britain offered a ray of hope for many. British degrees are recognised worldwide and that was another reason for doctors to go to there.

The two-tier Professional and Linguistics Assessments Board (PLAB) test enabled them to become senior house officers in British hospitals besides affording their pursuing higher education. Clearing PLAB, a doctor at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College said, was easy for Indian students, and naturally NHS had a large number of doctors from India.

However, the situation has changed in the last two years with the NHS preferring doctors from European Union to Indian and Pakistan doctors.

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