TRAINING ON ULTRASOUND MACHINES MUST

Doctors will have to undergo a six months training from accredited institutes by the state government to be able to use ultrasound machines.

The training, according to the officials in the union health ministry, will enable MBBS doctors to acquire general skills primarily for abdomen scans.

To avoid abuse, it has also been proposed that only the teaching hospitals will be eligible to conduct six months training. For the existing doctors, the government is making mandatory for them to undergo a “competency based test”.