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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicMedical Council of India

Topic: Medical Council of India

India needs to innovate in filling vacant hospital posts. Building new AIIMS alone won’t cut it

Right-minded reforms in healthcare are in place, but India should not end up in a situation where the surgery is successful but the patient is dead.

Kashmir cops ‘questioning’ students enrolled in Pakistan colleges, cite radicalisation fear

Police in Kashmir have denied the allegations, which come after Imran Khan govt in Pakistan announced 1,600 scholarships for Kashmiri students.

Doctors with medical degree from PoK won’t be allowed to practice in India, says MCI

An MCI notice said any qualification from medical colleges located within these "illegally occupied areas of India" shall not entitle a person for grant of registration.

Critics of Modi govt’s medical education reform Act are missing these 3 points

The heavily criticised provisions of NMC Act can have a direct impact on other professional education domains if the reform model is applied to them.

What is National Medical Commission Bill and why doctors are against it

The medical fraternity has raised several objections to NMC Bill that aims to replace the Medical Council of India with National Medical Commission.

In Lok Sabha, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan introduces bill to reform medical colleges

The National Medical Commission Bill seeks to nationalise standards in medical education and replace the 63-year-old Medical Council of India to reform the medical sector in India.

Modi govt wants to beat WHO standards on doctors with ‘non-doctors’

India's doctor to population ratio will be 1:902, better than WHO's standard 1:1000, if the 7.63 lakh AUH doctors are included.

Healthcare being neglected, govt needs to pay more attention and funds, say experts

At the South Asia Conclave 2018, panellists discuss the state of healthcare in India in the face of ‘inadequate funding’. New Delhi: A rising diabetes...

In three months, SC gives breather to 25 medical colleges that were banned for two years

In all the cases, the apex court restrained the government from encashing bank guarantees of Rs 2 crore each that the colleges had furnished.

Apex court’s judgment on Diwali firecrackers is not the first case of judicial overreach

SC-appointed committees in BCCI and MCI cases have powers to virtually run executive affairs, sidelining the government and elected executive bodies

On Camera

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

As IDF unveils robotic combat task force, Israeli maker says open to working with India

Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.