Voicing concern over the poor state of rural health services, the Delhi High Court has asked the health ministry to consider launching a special medical course of three years to bring out doctors to man primary healthcare centres in the country.
The court issued notice to the health secretary to consider whether the present MBBS course [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) The Medical Council of India (MCI) Friday asked the country’s doctors to stop receiving gifts or favours from any pharmaceutical companies and said they must desist from endorsing products.
Asking doctors to be ethical, the key governing body of the medicos said: ‘All medical practitioners shall not receive any gift from [...]
Dharamsala, Dec 17 (IANS) The Medical Council of India has recommended to the central government an increase in the number of MBBS seats in the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH) in the Himachal Pradesh capital, Health Minister Rajeev Bindal said Thursday.
In a suo-motu statement in the assembly, Bindal said: ‘The executive committee of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Mental healthcare, prison and hospital conditions, bonded labour and juvenile justice are some of the ‘priority areas’ for India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as it observes International Human Rights Day Thursday.
Saying the NHRC was ‘not a toothless body’, NHRC member P.C. Sharma said the quasi-judicial body was expanding its [...]
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is ‘not a toothless body’ as is often alleged and 99 percent of its recommendations on key issues are accepted, says its member P.C. Sharma.
‘NHRC is a recommendatory body. The parliament has enacted it that way. But at the same time it has the [...]
Shimla, Nov 23 (IANS) The Medical Council of India (MCI) has granted approval to the Himachal Pradesh government to increase the post-graduation course seats in the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH) here, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Monday.
‘Twenty-three additional seats in the IGMCH have been sanctioned in post-graduation courses from this [...]
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Taking serious note of the fact that basic health facilities were not reaching the poor in rural areas, the Delhi High Court Wednesday in a notice asked the health ministry to consider whether the present course can be reduced from five years to three years.
A division bench [...]
Bhopal, Sep 16 (IANS) All five medical institutions run by the Madhya Pradesh government are facing the threat of de-recognition for not meeting Medical Council of India (MCI) norms, but the colleges are unfazed and say this is a routine affair.
None of the five institutions run by the state have found mention in the MCI’s [...]
New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry has decided to scrap all health regulatory bodies, including the Medical Council of India (MCI), Dental Council of India, Pharmacy Council and the Nursing Council.
There will instead be a single regulatory body-the National Council for Human Resources in Health, which will oversee seven departments related to [...]
