Health Bulletin 29/ November/ 2024 - Video

The Supreme Court of India has issued an order to include the National Medical Commission (NMC) as a respondent in a case and sought its response concerning the appointment of Heads of Departments (HoDs) in medical colleges.

Declining to quash a criminal case against a lab technician for allegedly conducting an unprescribed test on a patient, the Kerala High Court ruled the action of performing a test using an alternative method that differed from the doctor’s prescribed test is considered as 'Gross Negligence'. The court said that it could have endangered the life of the patient.

While the lab technician, the petitioner in this case alleged that the alternative test did not constitute an act of negligence under Section 336, the court ruled that rash or negligent actions that endanger human life or safety attract liability under Section 336 of the IPC. Further, it noted that if the doctor had not detected the issue and conducted the correct test, it could have endangered the patient’s life, thereby justifying the charge.

There was no mention of the date of the upcoming National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) examination in the recently released academic calendar by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS).

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that NBE released the schedule of the upcoming NBE exams including FDST, NEET-SS 2024, NEET-MDS 2025, FET for FNB Courses-2023 admission session, DNB- Post Diploma Centralized Entrance Test (PDCET) 2025, FNB Exit Examination 2024, DrNB Final Practical Examinations- January 2025, etc.

The Kerala police have registered a case against four doctors after a family accused them of failing to detect genetic disorders in their unborn child before birth, leading to severe complications.

The incident took place at a hospital in Alappuzha, where the baby was born with severe deformities.