Health Bulletin 30/May/2025 - Video
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Here is the top health news for today:
Delhi Medical Council Bars 2 Fortis Shalimar Bagh Doctors from Practising as Super Specialists
The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has recently ordered two doctors at Fortis Hospital at Shalimar Bagh to refrain from claiming the status of neonatologists and practising as super-specialists.
Writing to the Medical Superintendent of the hospital, the medical council issued this direction after noting that as per the information available with the Council, these two doctors did not have the required medical qualification to be called a specialists.
Back in 2019, these two doctors were accused of medical negligence- allegedly leading to unabated Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy along with "West Syndrome" in a child. Back then, the child's parents had alleged that the treating doctors did not have the required qualifications to practice as super-specialists.
Now, the medical council has informed that as per the information available with it, Dr. Akhilesh Singh is registered with the Delhi Medical Council holding only an MBBS qualification, and the other doctor, Dr. Vivek Jain, is registered with the Council holding MBBS and MRCP qualifications.
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NMC Issues Show-Cause Notices to Pune GMCs over Infrastructure Gaps, Staff Shortages
Almost all the government medical colleges in Pune have been issued show-cause notices by the National Medical Commission (NMC) over vacancies of professors, staff, and insufficient infrastructure.
Issuing the show-cause notices, the Apex Medical Education Regulatory Body, NMC, has asked the colleges to submit a reply within seven days from receiving the notices.
If the government medical colleges fail to submit the reply within the deadline, they may have to pay penalties of Rs 1 crore per deficiency, Pune Mirror has reported. However, the Commission may also cancel the permission granted to the GMCs if they do not pay the penalty amount. Meanwhile, experts have opined that it was a routine exercise by the Commission.
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Less than 50 per cent Faculty, Infrastructure Gaps: NMC Issues show-cause notices to Pune GMCs
Pune Porsche case doctor now arrested in kidney transplant racket
The controversial former head of the Forensic Medicine department at Pune's Sassoon General Hospital has been arrested again, this time for his alleged involvement in an illegal kidney transplant racket at Ruby Hall Clinic, a prominent private hospital in the city.
This recent arrest adds to his ongoing jail term at Yerwada Central Jail, where he has been lodged since last year for allegedly tampering with the blood samples of a 17-year-old boy involved in a fatal Porsche crash in Pune's Kalyani Nagar that claimed two lives.
As per a PTI news agency report, the Pune crime branch has now taken him into custody after arresting him on Thursday in connection with the illegal kidney transplant case.
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Doctor jailed in Pune Porsche case now arrested in kidney transplant racket
Latur doctor booked for allegedly telling colleague to kill COVID patient in viral audio clip
An audio clip that recently went viral on social media allegedly captures a senior doctor of a government hospital in Maharashtra's Latur district instructing a colleague to ''kill'' a COVID-19 patient during the pandemic in 2021. In response, police have registered an FIR against the doctor and launched an investigation into the matter.
The recording is a purported conversation between the accused, Dr Shashikant Deshpande, who was then additional district surgeon at the Udgir Government Hospital in Latur, and Dr Shashikant Dange, who was posted at a Covid-19 care centre, news agency PTI reported.
The clip, now widely circulated on social media, is purportedly of the time during the COVID-19 crisis peak in 2021 when hospitals were crowded with patients and resources were scarce.
The patient, Kausar Fatima, wife of Dayami Ajimoddin Gaussoddin (53), had later recovered from the disease.
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FIR against Latur doctor for allegedly telling colleague to kill COVID patient
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