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Health Bulletin 03/ February/ 2025 - Video

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Overview

Here are the top health news for the day:

NMC to form speciality expert committee for PG specialisations, seeks faculty involvement

Informing about the constitution of a Specialty Expert Committee (SEC) for each speciality, the National Medical Commission has asked willing faculties/ specialists to furnish their details by 15th February 2025.

Writing to the Principal/Dean of all PG medical colleges under NMC, the Executive Director of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), and the Dean/Principal of all Institutes of National Importance, NMC Secretary Dr. B Srinivas addressed the issue of constitution of speciality expert committee of various postgraduate specialties.

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Supreme Court Upholds PG Degrees of WB Doctors Who Completed Studies by July 2022

Modifying its earlier order, the Supreme Court has now granted relief to many medical professionals in West Bengal by ensuring that those who completed their studies by July 2022 and were employed as senior residents would retain their degrees as legal and valid.

The top court bench on 17.10.2022 refused to consider their admission to the PG courses (for the 2019-2020 academic year) beyond the cut-off date of May 31, 2019.

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Union Budget 2025: 10,000 medical seats in 1 Year, 75,000 in next 5 Years

The Central Government plans to take steps to further expand the medical education sector by adding more medical seats to the country's seat matrix, announced Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Union Budget 2025 today.

In her budget speech, the Minister announced that the Government will include 75,000 new undergraduate medical seats in the next five years while noting that nearly 1.1 lakh undergraduate and postgraduate medical seats have already been added over the past 10 years, which is an increase of 130%.

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RG Kar Medical College MBBS student found dead at home
Ivy Prasad, a second-year medical student from RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, was found dead at her home in the ESI Hospital Quarters in Kamarhati, North 24 Parganas. Her mother, a doctor at the local ESI hospital, discovered her body after multiple attempts to reach her went unanswered. The police have registered a case of unnatural death and have launched an investigation. A post-mortem has been completed, and authorities are awaiting the report to determine the exact cause of death.
Police sources indicate that Ivy Prasad was found hanging in her room. Although efforts were made to save her, she was pronounced dead at the hospital. No suicide note was discovered at the scene, leaving questions unanswered. Authorities are looking into the possibility of depression, as suggested by early reports.

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With a graduation in Journalism and Mass Communication from Amity University, Yakshi Chugh embarked on a journey to explore the dynamic intersection of media and healthcare. In 2024, she joined Medical Dialogues, driven by a passion to enhance healthcare journalism and deliver insightful, impactful content to readers.
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