Kumar Raman
Founder and National President, Academy of Family Physicians of India, Regional President, South Asia, WONCA - World Organisation of Family Doctors.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Apr 30;9(4):1805-1810. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_289_20. eCollection 2020 Apr.
The 'Academy of Family Physicians of India (AFPI)', is a non-profit organisation registered in New Delhi with a membership base, spread over all India. AFPI is working towards the establishment of a distinct academic discipline 'family medicine' for doctors pursuing primary care vocation within the mainstream medical education system in India. AFPI adopted a multi-pronged approach engaging political leadership, bureaucracy, higher judiciary and other stakeholders. In 2018, a public interest litigation was filed in the Supreme Court of India. In pursuance to the Supreme Court of India order, AFPI approached the ministry as well as the Medical Council of India. In 2018 we had received written assurance from the Prime Minister's Office - PMO that the family medicine discipline will be addressed in the NMC bill. Earlier family medicine was mentioned only as part of the National Health Policies (NHP 2002 and NHP 2017) and finally, it has become part of the act, the National Medical Commission Act 2019.
印度家庭医生学会（AFPI）是一家在新德里注册的非营利组织，其会员遍布全印度。AFPI致力于在印度主流医学教育体系内，为从事初级保健职业的医生建立一门独特的学科——“家庭医学”。AFPI采取了多管齐下的方法，与政治领导层、官僚机构、高等司法机构及其他利益相关者进行接触。2018年，向印度最高法院提起了一项公益诉讼。根据印度最高法院的命令，AFPI与印度卫生部以及印度医学委员会进行了接洽。2018年，我们收到了总理办公室（PMO）的书面保证，即家庭医学学科将在《国家医学委员会法案》中得到体现。此前，家庭医学仅作为国家卫生政策（2002年国家卫生政策和2017年国家卫生政策）的一部分被提及，而最终，它已成为《2019年国家医学委员会法案》这一法案的一部分。
