Health Bulletin 24/November/2025 - Video
Overview
Here are the top health stories for the day:
Supreme Court rejects MBBS aspirant's plea to swap MCC seat for cheaper option
Dismissing a plea filed by an MBBS aspirant, the Supreme Court has recently refused to change her allocation of a seat in the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET) 2025 counselling process.
Approaching the Supreme Court, the aspirant had prayed for permission to vacate the seat allocated to her by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), to secure a more affordable option.
However, while considering the plea, the top court bench comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and Atul S. Chandurkar observed that allowing the student to vacate her MCC-allotted seat just to secure a cheaper option could ultimately lead to the wastage of a medical seat for the entire academic year. This, according to the Supreme Court, is a matter of public interest, given the country's demands for medical education. Further, the bench stressed that the court would not risk the loss of a valuable medical seat at this advanced stage of admissions.
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AIIMS obligated to pay Stipend to Indian junior resident doctors, not foreign PG trainees: Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court has held that the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) is obligated to pay stipend payments to Indian Junior Residents and it does not apply to foreign-national postgraduate medical trainees, who do not contribute to either the taxpayer funds or the national healthcare systems.
"As a publicly funded institution, AIIMS is obligated to prioritise stipendiary payments for domestic students who are beneficiaries of Indian taxpayer funds and expected to contribute to the national healthcare system. Extending such benefits to foreign/sponsored students who neither contribute to the domestic tax base nor form part of the national service pipeline would defeat the very fiscal rationale underlying their separate categorisation," observed the HC bench comprising Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar.
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Gujarat HC restores PG medical aspirant's candidature after minor NEET PG form typo, fines Rs 25k
Granting relief to a postgraduate medical aspirant, the Gujarat High Court has directed the admission committee for professional postgraduate medical education courses to allow the aspirant to participate in the NEET PG admissions after he made a mistake while filling out the form.
During the form fill-up process, the concerned candidate made an error in calculating his aggregate marks. He inadvertently entered his MBBS aggregate percentage as "66.23%" instead of the correct "66.32%" while filling up the application form. As a result of this, the admission committee cancelled his candidature.
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Sassoon Hospital Faces Patient Care Crisis Amid Super-speciality Doctors' Shortage
The ongoing shortage of super-speciality doctors at Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) has left hundreds of patients travelling long distances for advanced medical care, only to be turned away due to the unavailability of specialists. Many are left with no choice but to seek costly private treatment or delay essential care.
SGH, one of Maharashtra’s busiest government-run tertiary care centres, sees around 2,500 to 3,000 outpatient department (OPD) patients daily and performs nearly 500 major and minor procedures. It serves as a referral centre for Pune, Solapur, Satara and other districts. Despite its pivotal role, the hospital currently struggles to provide advanced care due to a lack of specialist doctors.
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Super-speciality doctors' shortage hits patient care at Sassoon Hospital
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