8 doctors held guilty of negligence: Medical Council slaps 100 CME credit hours penalty
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Holding eight doctors working at a private hospital based in Dehradun guilty of medical negligence, the Uttarakhand Medical Council(UKMC) has directed them to undergo 100 credit hours of "continued medical education" before applying for renewal of their licence.
The doctors had been found guilty while operating on an 86-years-old patient, who died after the surgery as he suffered from advanced lung disease (ALD).
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