Doctors at a Kolkata Hospital can now look after COVID-19 patients virtually As the country is facing an acute shortage of trained medical staff, amid pandemic, over 43,500 foreign medical graduates (FMGs) have offered their services to the government to join the battle against COVID. These graduates have urged the government to include them as 'interns' in confronting the deadly second wave of Coronavirus- without clearing the mandatory Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE) exams. The All India Foreign Medical Graduates Association sent a letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, seeking permission to work as 'interns' and aid in the fight against COVID.