Health Bulletin 12/July/ 2025 - Video

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has specified that the upper age limit for appointment to the posts of Senior Residents in broad specialties shall be forty-five years. Besides, this age limit shall be fifty years in the Departments of Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Pathology, Forensic Medicine, and Community Medicine.

Releasing the final Medical Institutions (Qualifications of Faculty) Regulations, 2025, in the official Gazette dated June 30, 2025, NMC laid down the eligibility qualifications of medical teachers at medical institutes.

Regarding Senior Residents, NMC discussed about the required qualifications to be appointed for the post, upper age-limit for appointment as Senior Residents, tenure of Senior Residency, and appointment of senior residents to the posts of Assistant Professors.

Taking action against a doctor for allegedly advertising an additional qualification, which is neither recognised as a medical qualification nor registered, the Kerala State Medical Council (Council of Modern Medicine) has imposed a penalty on him.

The concerned doctor practises modern medicine in Kannur. The Kerala State Medical Council has ordered him to pay a Rs 10,000 penalty after it received a complaint in this regard filed by the Payyannur branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), as per the Hindu report.

After receiving the complaint, the Ethics Committee of the Medical Council scrutinised the matter and found the complaint against Dr. Nayanar to be true.

As per the latest media report by The Hindu, in its complaint to the Registrar of KSMC, the IMA Payyannur branch secretary pointed out that Dr. Nayanar had violated provisions of 1.4.2 of the Ethics Regulations 2002, as per which physicians should display only recognised medical degrees or such certificates/diplomas/memberships/honours which confer professional knowledge or recognises any exemplary qualification/achievements, as suffix to their names.

In a strong push to improve healthcare services, the Karnataka Health Department has directed all government hospitals across the state to meet the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) within the next three months.

An official order issued by the state government on July 8 warns that hospitals failing to meet the deadline (3 months) will be disqualified from receiving benefits under the Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (AB-ARK) scheme - a state-supported healthcare programme for poor and middle-income families.

If the standards are not implemented even after six months, the representatives of the concerned healthcare organisations will get a remark in their annual performance reports, which could result in their transfers.

If no progress is made within nine months, the annual salary increment of all heads and medical/paramedical officers/staff working in such health institutions will be withheld. In case of no progress, the staff will be held accountable for poor quality care or treatment, reports TNIE.

Several doctors from private hospitals, clinics and nursing homes across the city have staged a protest against the Maharashtra Medical Council's (MMC) decision to grant registration to homoeopathic practitioners who have completed the bridge course-Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology (CCMP), allowing them to practice allopathy.

As part of the protest, private healthcare facilities are shut for 24 hours today. While outpatient departments (OPDs) are closed, emergency, maternity, ICU and ambulance services will continue as usual.

Extending support to the protesting doctors, the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (Central MARD) has formally joined the protest. The association leaders have stated that a statewide agitation will be held if the government fails to withdraw the notification.

Medical Dialogues recently reported that the Maharashtra Senior Resident Doctors Association (MSRDA) strongly opposed the Maharashtra Medical Council's decision and urged the council to immediately withdraw the notification. They asserted that such a move is "medically indefensible, ethically unacceptable, and legally questionable." They argued that the move is an affront to thousands of allopathic doctors who have dedicated over a decade of their lives to intense, evidence-based medical training, from MBBS to post-graduation and beyond.