Eminent paediatrician Dr Vinky Rughwani takes charge as administrator of Maharashtra Medical Council

Mumbai: The President of the Thalassemia Society of Central India, Dr Vinky Rughwani has been appointed as the new administrator of the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) by the Maharashtra Medical Education Department on Friday.

Dr Rughwani is an eminent paediatrician from Nagpur who has been working on the prevention and welfare of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell patients for the last 25 years and has worked as the Vice-President of the Maharashtra Medical Council for the last 5 years.  

Dr Rughwani has been assigned additional responsibilities for a period of one year or until the MMC elections take place. He will also carry out his duties as the administrator until a new council is established, following the disbandment of the 18-member MMC committee in 2022.

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This appointment took place after Dr Dilip Mhaisekar's term ended which allowed Dr Rughwani to serve as the new administrator of MMC.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that Director of Medical Education and Research (DMER) Dr Dilip Mhaisekar was appointed as the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) administrator.  He was selected as the new administrator of MMC in place of J J hospital dean Pallavi Saple as her one-year tenure ended on October 9.

A notice issued by the Maharashtra government confirmed the appointment of Dr Vinky Rughwani as the new administrator to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the Council for the next year or till the time MMC elections are held.

He is the President of the Thalassemia Society of Central India (an Organisation working for the welfare of Thalassemia & Sickle Cell patients and the prevention of this Illness in Central India) and the Director of the Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Centre, Nagpur (a Centre providing free treatment to Thalassemia and Sickle Cell patients).

Speaking to HT, Dr Rughwani said, "My focus will be to provide fast-track registration services as an MMC administrator. Medical negligence cases will be decided in a time-bound manner in the near future. I will implement the “know your doctor” concept as a bogus doctor is a major challenge and an online continuous professional development platform will be strengthened to give the latest knowledge update training to doctors so that time doctors will be saved."

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