Health Bulletin 30/ November/ 2024

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued show-cause notices to altogether 115 government and 83 private medical colleges for non-compliance with the Commission's directions to upload the details of the stipend paid to the interns and resident doctors.

Through a recent notice, the Apex Medical Commission has specified that the failure of these colleges to submit the information regarding stipends is "considered seriously". Accordingly, the concerned 198 medical colleges including Maulana Azad Medical college MAMC, New Delhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi, Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College, Rohini, ESIC run medical colleges, Raipur Institute of Medical Sciences RIMS, GMERS medical colleges, Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College & Hospital, DY Patil medical college, MGM Vashi and many more, have been asked to explain why penal action should not be taken against them for this non-compliance.

The Cardiologist from Khyati Hospital, who was recently arrested for performing unnecessary angioplasty procedures on two PMJAY beneficiaries, has now been suspended for three years by the Gujarat Medical Council (GMC).

In its suspension order, the GMC mentioned that it had taken suo motu cognizance of the incident in addition to a request from the Medical Services division of the Gujarat Health Department, Indian Express has reported.

In a recent cyber fraud case, a retired doctor from MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur allegedly became the latest victim of an elaborate digital scam and lost around Rs 1 crore to fraudsters posing as a TRAI official and a Mumbai Cyber Crime Division officer. The retired doctor was kept under digital arrest for 20 days and was threatened with arrest.

The incident came to light after the Odisha Crime Branch Police arrested the fraudster and accordingly seized his mobile phone, three SIM cards, a Saudi Arabian SIM card, a passbook, a passport, an Aadhaar card, a PAN card, a debit card, and credit cards.

Based on an official medical board report that revealed that a five-year-old boy did not die from complications related to a genital disorder, six doctors including, an anaesthetist and paediatric surgeon, have been charged and are now wanted in a case of medical negligence.

The father of the deceased son who is a city-based advocate blamed the doctors for his son's death. He claimed that his son was taken for an operation for phimosis with penile torsion, a genital-related disorder, however, instead his son died from multi-organ failure due to septicaemia following a hypoxic brain.