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TopicNational Medical Commission Bill

Topic: National Medical Commission Bill

SubscriberWrites: Replacing Hippocratic oath with Charak Shapath redundant. Oaths do not ensure ethics

Oath, in whatever form or language, is useless unless one who takes it, follows the same in letters and in spirit, writes Sibu K Das

Indian healthcare needs foreign medical graduates. Draft rules do just the opposite

National Medical Commission’s overtly stringent draft regulations will end up creating a new set of barriers for graduates who have done MBBS in foreign universities.

National Medical Commission proposes new rules, likely to abolish 5-acre land requirement

The regulations proposed to reduce the minimum bed requirement for a medical college & make skill labs mandatory. NMC has sought feedback from stakeholders by 19 October.

YV Reddy questions Fin Commission mandate on defence funding, K Sujatha Rao on new medical bill

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Lok Sabha passes National Medical Commission Bill, replaces MCI with new body

BJP leader Mahesh Sharma said the 1956 India Medical Council Act has completely failed to fulfil aspirations of the people and had become a den of corruption.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.