Dilip Cherian | Grassroots gap: Doctors intensify call for all-India medical service Published : May 20, 2021, 7:43 am IST Updated : May 20, 2021, 7:43 am IST FORDA has renewed the demand and written to PM Modi asking him to expedite the creation of a national medical service The second wave of the epidemic has caught India’s creaking health infrastructure on the wrong foot again. (PTI /Kamal Kishore) The devastating Covid crisis has renewed demand for the creation of an Indian Medical Service along the lines of the all-India services such as IAS and IPS etc., at the earliest. The second wave of the epidemic has caught India’s creaking health infrastructure on the wrong foot again. It has blown the lid off the “system”, exposing the shortage of critical beds, oxygen, equipment and doctors and other medical staff.