What do you Mean by RMPs? Where are they Found?

Question: What do you mean by RMPs? Where are they found?

Answer: A Registered Medical Practitioner is a person who has been registered with the State Medical Council. An individual seeking to be a registered medical practitioner firstly needs to pursue the undergraduate medical course at any college recognized by the state’s governing body. A Registered medical practitioner works for rural residents and people residing in urban slum areas. Many MBBS graduates have the license to practice allopathic medicine as they are registered under the Medical Council of India. Any practitioner practicing modern medicine without a legal sanction utilizes the Registered Medical Practitioner as a completely illegal suffix. People who cannot afford the fees of local doctors have to depend on such local practitioners for their treatment. An RMP should keep themselves pure and be careful while treating the sick. 

The registered medical practitioner is mainly found in rural areas because of the lack of medical facilities for which the government arranges the healthcare centers in these areas to provide adequate treatment to backward rural and poor people. 

Generally, the Panchayati Raj is responsible for arranging healthcare centers as they are the local self-government unit for rural areas. The Panchayati Raj institutions are essential for democratic decentralization in a diverse and vast country like India. The healthcare centers and the Panchayati Raj are also responsible for several other activities in rural areas. It includes land improvements, animal husbandry, minor irrigation, agriculture, social forestry, poverty alleviation programs, health and sanitation, education, etc.