Punjab Medical Council has affirmed to be strict after receiving letters from the Medical Council Of India regarding liaisons between doctors and diagnostic centres.The MCI is on a prowl after cracking down ghost teachers. State Medical Councils have been asked to get firm with the diagnostic centres which provide cuts and commission to referring doctors and medical practitioners, leading to unwanted investigations.
According to the President of Punjab Medical Council, Dr. GS Grewal, the MCI has issued two separate letters to the state councils, stating that;
- Immediate action should be taken on such complaints and thorough investigations on these complaints need to be conducted in a time-bound manner.
- Suo- Moto action should be implemented whenever the councils feel necessary.
In the letters written by secretary and deputy secretary of MCI, they retain that,
1. “Medical Council of India had received a complaint with regard to various diagnostic centres, giving cuts and commission to doctors for referring patients to diagnostic centres and also prescribing the investigations unnecessarily, which are not required.”
2. “They should investigate all the complaints received with regard to unethical practice adopted by the Registered Medical Practitioners in the respective state medical councils under the Indian Medical Council Regulations, 2002.”
3. “Whenever a complaint is received against a medical practitioner for accepting commission and cuts, unnecessary investigation, illegal abortions, nexus with the drug companies, etc., the council should take immediate action and even suo-moto notice and notify the action taken by them in the local newspapers and put it on the website under intimation to the Medical Council of India.”
The state medical councils have been asked to send the necessary advisory to all medical practitioners registered with their councils to refrain from unethical and illegal practices.
