Delhi Doctors Welcome National Medical Commission, demands revision of CGHS rates

Raising the issue of doctors' safety, Tyagi said that the law will be made an assault on doctors a congnizable offence.

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"We have been raising the issue of assault on doctors. Harsh Vardhan should assure us that a bill should be brought as Central Health Act in the next parliamentary session," he said.

"Under the central act, assault on doctors will become congnizable offence where grievous and serious injuries will be defined separately. The assaulters will be made to heavy penalty," the DMA president added.

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DMA's call for the law came in the wake of a brutal physical assault on a resident doctor at Kolkata's NRS Medical College in June by a group of people associated with a patient's attendant. Later, the assault trigged doctors' strike across the country and serious concerns were raised about doctors' safety in the hospitals.

Besides this, the association demanded a revision of the CGHS rates, the rates at which private hospitals empanelled with the various government organisations provide treatment to government employees