Health Bulletin 20/November/2025
Here are the top health stories for the day:
NEET PG 2025: MCC withdraws choice filling extension, doctors express outrage
The uncertainty surrounding the NEET PG 2025 counselling deepened recently as the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) reportedly temporarily announced a '2-3 day extension' for Round 1 choice filling, sparking widespread concern among aspirants before the notice was withdrawn.
Sharing the screenshots of the MCC's announcement, the aspirants soon started expressing their disappointment over the further delay in the commencement of the counselling process.
Bringing good news to the postgraduate medical aspirants in Gujarat, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has approved an additional 247 MD/MS seats.
Even though the State Government and the GMERS colleges had requested 800 additional PG medical seats, the Apex Medical Education Regulatory Body, NMC, has approved only 247 seats in the State, Gujarat Samachar has reported.
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NEET PG Seats: NMC approves 247 of 800 requested additional seats in Gujarat
Karnataka High Court directs NMC to provide detailed report on increased MBBS seats
Even though the counselling process for the allotment of MBBS seats has already commenced for the academic year 2025-2026, the High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday asked the National Medical Commission (NMC) to give details of the number of MBBS seats increased across the country and in Karnataka.
The HC Division Bench comprising Justices Jayant Banerji and K.V. Aravind sought these details from the Apex Medical Education Regulatory Body while considering the petitions filed by some of the MBBS seat aspirants, who questioned the methodology adopted by the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) in alloting the seats in the third round of counselling to fill up the vacant seats in the MBBS and BDS courses.
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Karnataka High Court directs NMC to provide detailed report on increased MBBS seats
74-year-old doctor loses Rs 7.17 crore in digital arrest fraud
In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a 74-year-old doctor from Ahilyanagar has lost Rs 7.17 crore after being kept under "digital arrest", during which scammers even staged a fake online courtroom to deceive him.
The fraud lasted for a week until the doctor was coerced into transferring Rs 7.17 crore in multiple transactions to various bank accounts controlled by the fraudsters.
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74-year-old doctor loses Rs 7.17 crore in digital arrest scam
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