DO NOT Deregister doctors: High court to Karnataka Medical Council

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Members of the Indian Medical Association knocked at the gates of the high court challenging the sudden enforcement of the move, which also came in the absence of a Gazette notification, contented by the petitioners.

The petitioners also pointed out that there are around 1.19 lakh medical practitioners in the State. Though around 80 per cent of medical practitioners have already submitted their applications, the rest have to wait in a long queue for submitting their applications before the deadline. The counsel for IMA also argued that all these years medical practitioners were not required to produce any such certificate as they were operating under permanent registration, reports

TOI.

The court, responding the matter, declined to give a stay on the norm that requires a registered medical practitioner to produce a certificate for having attended a Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme for about one hundred hours, reports The Hindu. The court however, through the interim order directed the medical council not to de-register the not to de-register doctors until further orders. Vacation judge Justice Aravind Kumar also ordered notice to the government and Medical Council of India (MCI).