Health Bulletin 03/December/2025
Here are the top health stories for the day:
NEET PG 2025 Counselling: MCC opens NRI nationality conversion window for Round 2 candidates, check details
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has issued a notice for candidates who want to change their nationality from Indian to NRI in round 2 of NEET PG counselling 2025.
Therefore, candidates who want to change their nationality from Indian to NRI are advised to check out the details mentioned below as released in the official notice on the MCC's official website.
NEET PG relief: Gujarat HC allows aspirant to correct form error, join counselling
Granting relief to a postgraduate medical aspirant who put the wrong aggregate percentage in his National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG) 2025 admission form, the Gujarat High Court has allowed him to rectify the said "inadvertent mathematical error".
The Court has directed the authorities to allow the concerned PG medical aspirant to participate in the ongoing state counselling process, Ahmedabad Mirror has reported.
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NEET PG relief: Gujarat HC allows aspirant to fix percentage error in form, join counselling
Supreme Court issues notice on statutory framework for prosecuting doctors in medical negligence cases
The Supreme Court will hear a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Centre and all State Governments to frame statutory rules for prosecuting cases of criminal medical negligence.
A direction in this regard was mandated by the Supreme Court nearly two decades ago in the landmark Jacob Mathew judgment. However, the PIL flagged a "20-year-long inaction" by the authorities despite directions issued by the Supreme Court on August 5, 2005, requiring the Union and state governments to frame statutory rules or executive instructions governing the prosecution of doctors in criminal negligence cases, IANS has reported.
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Kerala HC upholds medical council rule requiring clinical clerkship for FMGs taught online during COVID
A Division bench of the Kerala High Court has recently upheld the State Medical Council's decision to mandate clinical clerkship for the Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs), who were studying in China and completed a portion of their education online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Justices Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice PV Balakrishnan, observed that the only objective for the one-year clinical clerkship is "to ensure the quality of health care delivery in the country and nothing more."
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