Rajasthan Student Nurses Association has showed their resentment over the newly introduced course “B.Sc in Community Course” by Medical Council of India (MCI), which will, according to them, bring in more unemployment, especially for nursing professionals.

Over hundreds of Nursing students marched to the Collectorate and demonstrated their objection. Protestors handed over an application letter in the name of Central Minister of Health and demanded to take back the course that is going to start from April 2013.

B.Sc in Community Course is a three-and-a-half-year-course and can be done after 12^th, the purpose behind introducing this course is said, to improve the health centers in rural India.

Nursing Association claimed, it as a wrong objective when thousands of nursing degree holders are sitting unemployed.

The Association also said that the course of nursing is of 4 years and in this duration they are trained for community health, pharmacology, anatomy, child health, pathology, psychology etc, while, in the new course MCI will train the students for community diagnosis and immunization.

MCI can use nursing staff for the same purpose which will fill the lack of health workers. The representatives of Nursing Association, including the leaders Surendra Singh Panwar and Vaibhav Nagar met Higher Authorities and expressed their concern.

According to sources, like nursing, AYUSH doctors are also against the newly introduced course.