Washington, June 24: In an effort to promote links with their motherland, four non-resident Indian doctors have announced a sponsorship under which five NRI medical students in the US will be given thousand dollars each to spend one month in India to acquaint themselves with the treatment methods and gain exposure to traditional medicines there. "There are ten thousand NRI medical students and 15,000 doctors in training (residents) in the US. In due course they will occupy key positions in the US and it is important that they have links with India,” said Navin Shah who is funding one scholarship.
Interaction of the second generation of NRI doctors with their counterparts in India, learning about ayurveda, tropical medicine and infectious diseases which are not prevalent in the US, are the principle objective of the scholarship.
Besides Shah, other doctors funding the scholarship are Kiran Patel, Vinod Shah and Bharat Barai.
Pointing out that the leading cause of deaths in India is due to accidents in the absence of trauma centres, the doctors are also planning to build many such units in India.
Bureau Report