Health Bulletin 06/ January/ 2025

Telangana: Issuing notice to Hyderabad-based Hospital for allegedly colluding with unqualified persons and promoting fake doctors, the Telangana Medical Council has sought an explanation from the hospital management.

Setting a 10-day deadline for the Rushcare Hospital, the Medical Council has clarified that failure to submit any explanation would attract punitive actions under the law.

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Violation of NMC Act! Telangana Medical Council show cause notice to hospital for colluding with unqualified practitioners

MBBS Admission Scam: Miscreants posing as medical trustees, Political leader relative booked for Rs 45 lakh fraud

Mumbai: Three accused including a woman pretending to be trustees of SSPM Medical College and Lifetime Hospital, Sindhudurg and another accused claiming to be the relative of a top BJP leader from Sindhudurg have been booked in a cheating case after an Andheri-based widow lost Rs 45 lakh in 2021. They promised to secure her daughter’s admission into a reputed medical college in Sindhudurg under the management quota.

The accused include Satpute, an old acquaintance of the complainant, along with Nitesh Pawar, Rakesh Gawde, and a man identified as Sawant Kaka. The group presented themselves as influential and cheated the woman.

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Miscreants who pretended to be medical college trustees, relative of political leader booked for Rs 45 lakh MBBS admission Fraud

MBBS student dies after falling from 7th floor of hostel building

Kochi: In a tragic incident, a second-year MBBS student at the Sree Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences in Chalakka lost her life after accidentally falling from the seventh floor of the hostel building.

The police report states that the student, Fathimath Shahana, was sitting on the protective grill of a duct on the seventh floor of the girls' hostel when she lost her balance and fell through the duct to the first floor, accidentally slipping through a gap between the corridor and the wall on the seventh floor of the building.

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Tragic: Sree Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences MBBS student falls to death from hostel building

NEET PG 2024 counselling cutoff percentile reduced, Check all details

New Delhi: The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), operative under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has reduced the cut-off for National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2024 admissions making General/EWS candidates securing 15 percentile and above and SC/ST/OBC/PwD candidates securing 10 percentile and above eligible to participate in the counselling process.

Issuing an urgent notification in this regard to the medical colleges today, the MCC mentioned that "as per decision taken by MoHFW in consultation with NMC, the percentile for NEET PG counselling 2024 has been lowered."

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NEET PG 2024 counselling cutoff percentile reduced, Check all details