New Delhi: Some 90,000 Indian doctors armed with medical degrees from Russia, China and Ukraine are urging the federal government to put them to operate in the battle versus COVID-19 instead of standing idly by, awaiting regional licences.Nowhere on the planet has actually been hit harder by the pandemic than India, as a new variant of the virus fuelled a rise in infections that has actually risen to more than 400,000 daily, with more than 4,000 deaths a day, overwhelming the health system.

Graduates from overseas medical schools consisting of Bangladesh, Philippines, Nepal and Kyrgyzstan need to pass local tests in India before they are permitted to practise.Many have either cleared the exams and are awaiting their licences to be released, while others are to sit for the test next month.

We are not requiring that foreign graduates should be allowed to carry out surgical treatments, but they must be enabled to work as frontline employees at such a critical juncture, stated Najeerul Ameen, president of All India Foreign Medical Graduates Association.

Health specialists are alerting that India will quickly face a lack of medical staff in critical care systems as the 2nd wave takes its toll.

Over the next couple of weeks we'll be seeing the death of clients in ICUs (extensive care systems) because there may be no nurses and physicians to take care of them.

This is going to occur, said Dr Devi Shetty, a popular cardiologist at a recent conference.Last week, overworked nurses and paramedics in government medical facilities in the western state of Gujarat went on a strike requesting better salaries and insurance cover.

Ameen stated countless the foreign medical graduates were standing idle despite being keen to work.

The World Health Company recognises their degrees.Officials at the National Board of Examination (NBE) said the examinations were obligatory because they had not been trained in India.

They are not accustomed to Indian healthcare issues at all, said Pawanindra Lal, executive director of the NBE.The health ministry did not respond to a Reuters ask for remark.