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The PHMS Row

PHMS (Provincial Health and Medical Services) is maybe the hottest topic to debate upon today in the medical field. This service, which was started in order to give relief to people resided in rural areas and to help medical services be available in the rural areas has surely become something that most medical students are protesting against in Uttar Pradesh. To find the reason, let's go underneath the protest and slogans against the government and focus on the actual service. So, PHMS was started as a programme for students who had completed their under graduation course, which in medical science is known as MBBS. Under this programme a student who has completed his/her MBBS can then take up the provincial health and medical services which was a service in which the student had to spend his duty life in rural areas to provide medical help there, but as the people realised that not much work and a great level of brilliance was required to do the job, many students started taking t...