Health Bulletin 07/ February/ 2025

NEET-SS is an eligibility-and-ranking test for admission to various DM, MCh, and DrNB super speciality courses. The decision to not conduct the NEET SS examination in 2024 was taken by the National Medical Commission (NMC) in its meeting dated 23.02.2024. Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that since the admissions for the academic year 2021 for MD/MS and DNB courses were held only between, January to May 2022, NMC decided that the NEET-SS 2024 exam may not be conducted in 2024.

A doctor at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital (TvMCH) has been accused of fabricating medical records of a road accident victim by falsely implicating him as intoxicated at the time of the accident. The patient alleged that the cover-up was done to protect a health department staff member involved in the accident.

According to the patient, the attending doctor falsely recorded that his "breath smelled of alcohol" in the medical report, leading to the police registering a case against him instead of the perpetrator. However, he denied being drunk when the accident happened.

Issuing an order, the Government suspended Dr. Nazir, consultant Gynaecologist at SDH Sopore, and Dr. Dar, the Medical Officer (Diploma in Anaesthesia), DH Bandipora. The operation theatre of the private hospital in Sopore was also sealed after the alleged incident, Kashmir Reader has reported.

Taking action against 11 second-year MBBS students found guilty of ragging their juniors, the Principal of Government Medical College, Kozhikode suspended them.

The action was taken against the students after the Anti-Ragging Committee of the medical college conducted an inquiry into the matter based on a complaint filed by the first-year junior students.