National Medical Commission: Meet the new regulators
New Delhi: With the National Medical Commission (NMC) replacing the Medical Council of India (MCI), the state of affairs has now fallen under the guidance of Dr Suresh Chandra Sharma, who will now take his charge as the Chairman of NMC.
Dr Sharma is a retired HoD, ENT, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi. He has been appointed by new apex medical regulator as the Chairman for a period of three years with effect from the 25th day of September 2020.
Born in 1955, Dr Suresh Chandra Sharma did MBBS from SMS Medical College, Jaipur (Rajasthan), and MS (ENT) from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh. After this, he worked as Faculty at PGI Chandigarh in various capacities till March 2000 when he joined the ENT department of AIIMS New Delhi. Since then, he has been an integral part of AIIMS, New Delhi and credited with various developments at the department
At AIIMS along with Head & Neck Surgery, he developed Skull base surgery, and surgery for Head & neck Paraganglioma, Cochlear implant, Robotic and minimal invasive Surgery for Head & Neck tumours. He is actively involved in basic research in the field of Oral cancer and Cholesteatoma has numerous national, international accolades to his credit. Besides his charge has HOD at AIIMS, he has also been nominated as President of AIIMS, Jodhpur, by the Government of India.
Meanwhile, Dr Rakesh Kumar Vats, who was previously the secretary-general in the board of governors of the Medical Council of India (MCI), now has been appointed as the secretary of the Commission for the similar term.
Medical Dialogues has recently reported about the dissolution of the MCI and the NMC now replacing it for development and regulation of all aspects of medical education and profession. With the NMC coming into being, the Board of Governors (BoG), which superseded the Medical Council of India (MCI) on September 26, 2018, to perform its functions, will get dissolved and the nearly 64-year-old Indian Medical Council Act will stand abolished.
The NMC comprises a chairman, 10 ex-officio members and 22 part-time members. The ex-officio members include presidents of the four autonomous boards.
The four autonomous boards under the NMC Act -- the Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB), Post-Graduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB), Medical Assessment and Rating Board and the Ethics and Medical Registration Board -- have also been constituted. The notification names presidents of four autonomous boards under the NMC as follows – Dr Aruna Vanikar, HoD Pathology; Dr GR Doshi, Institute of Kidney Diseases, Ahmadabad (UG medical board); Dr MK Ramesh, Head, surgery at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (PG medical education board); Dr Achal Gulati, Director Principal, BR Ambedkar Medical College, Delhi; and Dr BN Gangadhar, Director of NIMHANS Bangalore as the president of medical ethics and registration board.
Under subsection (3) of section 4:
Clause of section 4(3) of the Act | Member | Status of Membership |
(a) | The President of the Under-Graduate Medical Education Board | Member,ex-officio |
(b) | The President of the Post-Graduate Medical Education Board | Member,ex-officio |
(c) | The President of the Medical Assessment and Rating Board | Member, ex-officio |
(d) | The President of the Medical Assessment and Rating Board | Member, ex-officio |
(e) | The Director General of Health Services, Directorate General of Health Services, New Delhi | Member, ex-officio |
(f) | The Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research | Member, ex-officio |
(g) | Dr. Surekha Kishore, Executive Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur | Member, ex-officio |
(h) | (iii) Dr. Jagat Ram, Director, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh; (iv) Dr. Rajendra A Badwe, Director, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai | Member, ex-officio Member, ex-officio |
(i) | Ms. Arti Ahuja, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi | Member, ex-officio |
i. Dr. Smita Kolhe, Bairagarh, Melaghat, Maharashtra
ii. Shri Santosh Kumar Kraleti, CEO, Foot Soldiers for Health Pvt Limited and Founder & Executive Director, Dhaatri (Mother Milk Bank), Hyderabad.
iii. Vacant
(4) Under clause (b) of sub-section (4) of section 4, the following shall be appointed as part-time Members for a period of two years from the 25th day of September 2020 (nominees of States and Union territories appointed under clauses (c) and (d) of sub-section (2) of section 11 in the Medical Advisory Council):
Serial number | Name of the Member | Name of State or Union territories |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
1. | Dr. Sudha Seshayyan, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. | Tamil Nadu |
2. | Prof. Rajendra Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, West Bengal University of Health Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal. | West Bengal |
3. | Dr. Himanshu A. Pandya, Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. | Gujarat |
4. | Prof (Dr.) Mahesh Verma, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. | Delhi |
5. | Dr. Surender Kashyap, Vice Chancellor, Atal Medical and Research University, Himachal Pradesh | Himachal Pradesh |
6. | Dr. C.V. Rao, Vice Chancellor, Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. | Andhra Pradesh |
7. | Dr. Rajababu Panwar, Vice Chancellor, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, Jaipur, Rajasthan. | Rajasthan |
8. | Dr. V. K. Das, Director, Medical Education. | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu |
9. | Dr. Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Science, Faridkot, Punjab | Punjab |
10. | Dr. O.P. Kalra, Vice Chancellor, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak | Haryana. |
(5) Under clause (c) of sub-section (4) of section 4, the following shall be appointed as part- time Members for a period of two years from the 25th day of September, 2020 (nominees of States and Union territories appointed under clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 11 in the Medical Advisory Council):
Serial number | Name | Name of the State Medical Council |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
1. | Dr. Urmila Singh | Uttar Pradesh Medical Council |
2. | Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Prasad | Sikkim Medical Council |
3. | Dr. Rani Bhaskaran | Kerala Medical Council |
4. | Dr. H. Veerbhadrappa | Karnataka Medical Council |
5. | Dr. Ajay Kumar Khanna | Uttarakhand Medical Council |
6. | Dr. Koj Jarbo | Arunachal Pradesh Medical Council |
7. | Dr. Sahajanand Prasad Singh | Bihar Medical Council |
8. | Dr. Shiv Kumar Shankar Utture | Maharashtra Medical Council |
9. | Prof. Dr. Thongam Bhimo Singh | Manipur Medical Council |
(6) Under subsection (1) of section 8, the Secretary of the Secretariat for the National Medical Commission, as specified below, is appointed for a period of three years with effect from the 25th day of September 2020:
The composition of the Under-Graduate Medical Education Board shall be the following, namely:-
Serial number | Name of Member | Status of membership |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (President and two whole time Members) | ||
1. | Dr. Aruna V. Vanikar Professor and Head, Department of Pathology, G R Doshi and Smt. K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney disease and Research Centre, Ahmedabad | President |
2. | Dr. Vijayendra Kumar, Professor and Head Department of Pediatric Surgery, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences , Patna | Member |
3. | Vacant | Member |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
4. | Dr. Mukut Minz , Director (Urology), Fortis Hospital, Mohali. | Member |
Under sub section (5) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
5. | Dr. Debashish Chakraborty, Tripura Medical Council | Member. |
The composition of the Post-Graduate Medical Education Board shall be the following, namely:-
Serial number | Name of Member | Status of membership |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (President and two whole-time Members) | ||
1. | Dr. M..K. Ramesh, Professor, and Head, Department of Surgery, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute. | President |
2. | Dr Vijay Oza, Professor, and Head, Department of Urology, Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Post Graduate Institute, Puducherry | Member |
3. | Vacant | Member |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
4. | Dr. R.K. Dhiman, Director, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science, (PGIMS), Lucknow | Member |
Under subsection (5) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
5. | Dr. Saleem-ur-Rehman, Jammu and Kashmir Medical Council | Member. |
The composition of the Medical Assessment and Rating Board shall be the following, namely:-
Serial number | Name of Member | Status of membership |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (President and one whole time Member) | ||
1. | Dr. Achal Gulati,Director Principal, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College, Delhi | President |
2. | Dr. G. Suryanarayana Raju, Director, Asvins Specialty Hospital, Hyderabad. | Member |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
3. | Dr R. Narayanababu Director Medical Education, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Tamilnadu | Member |
Under sub-section (3) of section 17 (whole-time Member) | ||
4. | Vacant | Member |
Under subsection (5) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
5. | Dr. Sedevi Angami, Nagaland Medical Council | Member. |
The composition of the Ethics and Medical Registration Board shall be the following, namely:-
Serial number | Name of Member | Status of membership |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (President and one whole-time Member) | ||
1. | Dr. B.N. Gangadhar. Director, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences,(NIMHANS), Bengaluru. | President |
2. | Dr Vijay Lakshmi Nag, Professor & Head, Department of Microbiology, AIIMS, Jodhpur. | Member |
Under sub-section (2) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
3. | Vacant | Member |
Under sub-section (4) of section 17 (whole-time Member) | ||
4. | Dr. Yogender Malik, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Bhagat Phool Singh, Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat. | Member |
Under subsection (5) of section 17 (part-time Member) | ||
5. | Dr. Nishant Warwade, Madhya Pradesh Medical Council | Member. |
The President and whole-time members of each Autonomous Boards referred to in paragraphs 2 to 5, shall hold office for a term of four years and the part-time Members thereof shall hold office for a term of two years, respectively, with effect from 25th day of September 2020.
