New Delhi: Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has said the controversy over his statement that a doctor from Bihar was the sole cause for Britain for de-recognising MBBS graduates from India was needless but insisted his view was based on a "verifiable fact".
"This is a fact and you can verify it. I don't know why such a hue and cry was raised about it," Ramadoss told reporters in Delhi on Thursday.
"I am also a doctor. I will be the last person to denigrate or defame any doctor from any state. It is a noble profession and I respect everyone coming from any state - be it Bihar or Uttar Pradesh. I have lot of respect for doctors from Bihar," IANS quoted him as saying.
"There was an issue in the United Kingdom (in the seventies) and they had unilaterally removed the recognition offered to Indian degrees and the matter was examined and it was found that our Indian standard of medical education was not up to their mark," he was quoted by PTI as saying.
"They had examined a few candidates and some of the senior doctors who had talked to me in the recent years had said the incident started first over one doctor who had gone there and UK doctors had examined and found that he had done something grossly wrong," he said. "Incidentally, the doctor was from Bihar.".
Asked whether he had any proof to back his statement, he said he did and would give it when needed.
Ramadoss made the controversial statement while addressing a function in Delhi on December 14.
The Indian Medical Association rejected Ramadoss’s statement and doctors in Patna burnt his effigies and demanded that he be removed from his post.
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