At the first-ever virtual meeting of the National Working Group for the formation of Indian Medical Services (IMS), recommendations over its functioning were discussed. The COVID pandemic and numerous experiments with drugs have once again brought into focus the need for a dedicated IMS. Sunday’s meeting detailed these.

The five-member team, under the chairmanship of Dr Vedprakash Mishra, national head of the Academic Programme (Indian Programme), UNESCO chair in Bioethics (Haifa), is working on the modulation of structure, operation and function of IMS, constituted by Dr Rajan Sharma, national president, Indian Medical Association (IMA).