Faced with mounting allegations against MCI, the council’s president Dr Jayshree Mehta defends the council, saying the body was not ‘given a reasonable opportunity’ to present their side of the story. Some of the things she said in this regard are: The negative attention which fell on the council is unfair. Though time was sought […]
A recent proposal made by a high level committee which has the NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya at its helm has many intrigued. The proposal mentions replacing the Medical Council of India(MCI) with the National Medical Commission(NMC). In view of the frequent reports of corruption in the MCI, the central government instituted a panel the […]
What the Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said at a recent event wouldn’t be music to the ears of anyone at the Medical Council of India(MCI) The Minister pointed out in terms only too clear that the work of the MCI is to ruin the medical education system in India. He said that this process […]
Doctors at Hindu Rao Hospital in North Delhi have gone on an indefinite strike over non-payment of salaries for the past 3 months! Hindu Rao Hospital that caters to over 1,000 out patients daily is one of 6 hospitals run by the North Delhi corporation which is facing a deficit of Rs 300 crores. This […]
Medical Council of India (MCI) has announced that it will no longer be making public the minutes of any of its ethics committee meetings. These are the meetins where medical negligence cases and cases of professional misconduct by doctors are heard. No minutes from ethics committee metings have been uploaded to the MCI website since […]