Soon, National Medical Register to keep Count of Doctors, their medico-legal contacts: Health Ministry
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New Delhi: Soon, there is going to be common national medical register with the government that is going to provide a count of all the registered medical practitioners in the country, while also keeping a record where they work and their medico-legal issues.
Provisions to this effect were recently released Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in its recent gazette on the National Medical Commission Act that calls for the replacement of the Medical Council of India (MCI). These rules have been termed the National Medical Commission (Submission of List of Medical Professionals) Rules, 2019
Medical Dialogues has repeatedly raised various issues that are plaguing the medical practitioners across the country coming out of council registrations, including duplicate registrations across various states, renewal of registrations, as well as that the growing menace fake medical practitioners. With the states maintaining their own registers and sharing the records with MCI, which due to duplicate registrations is not able to compile the same, the apex medical council itself does not have an answer to the question of the
Provisions to this effect were recently released Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in its recent gazette on the National Medical Commission Act that calls for the replacement of the Medical Council of India (MCI). These rules have been termed the National Medical Commission (Submission of List of Medical Professionals) Rules, 2019
Medical Dialogues has repeatedly raised various issues that are plaguing the medical practitioners across the country coming out of council registrations, including duplicate registrations across various states, renewal of registrations, as well as that the growing menace fake medical practitioners. With the states maintaining their own registers and sharing the records with MCI, which due to duplicate registrations is not able to compile the same, the apex medical council itself does not have an answer to the question of the
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