New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved the reconstitution of Medical Council of India (MCI) with former Director General Health Services RK Srivastava replacing KK Talwar as Chairman of the Council's Board of Governors.
"The formal notification in respect of the MCI reconstitution would be issued tomorrow by the Health Ministry," a top Ministry official told PTI. The new seven-member board to run the apex medical regulator, approved by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, will have a term of six months within which MCI elections is to be held and the original democratic structure of the Council restored.
The government has already moved a new bill in this regard which is yet to be passed in Parliament. An ordinance was on Thursday issued by the government for putting in place the new MCI Board of Governors (BoG) to run the medical regulator. The Union Cabinet had approved the issuance of such an ordinance.
The term of the last BoG expired on May 13, necessitating issuance of an ordinance to form a new board until Parliament passes the new Indian Medical Council Amendment Act, which provides for the restoration of elected MCI and fixes the tenure of its President to root out corruption....
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11:24 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Health and Family Minister AK Walia on Saturday called upon medical professionals to work in close association with one another as well as with environmental specialists to achieve the goal of holistic health. "The health ministry is looking for such collaborations as centre point of all health care agencies in future whereby every citizen will have access to clean water, clean food and clean air," said Walia...
04:54 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Swine flu has re-emerged in India and cases are rising across the country, with Rajasthan being the worst hit state so far. However, health authorities have said there's no reason to panic. As many as 246 people have tested positive for H1 N1 and 54 people have lost their lives in Rajasthan due to swine flu, according to the Health Ministry. ...
08:50 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The Centre would permit overseas Indian doctors to practise in the country without undergoing screening tests, Union Health Secretary P K Pradhan said on Wednesday. In what is viewed as the first major impact of the ongoing Global Healthcare Summit, Pradhan said the Centre was ready with the bill to amend the Medical Council of India (MCI) Act and allow overseas Indians to practise in their homeland as demanded by...
02:20 AM, Jan 03, 2013
The medical superintendent of the government hospital in Baramulla, in which two infants died on Friday evening due to power cut, along with three others have been suspended. Sources say criminal proceedings are likely. The families of the infants claim the babies died because of lack of oxygen supply during a two-hour power cut. ...
08:40 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Sagarika Ghose: Hi there. We are focusing in this show on a subject that concerns us all, mental illness. Currently 130 million Indians are diagnosed with some form of mental illness, including depression, bipolarity and schizophrenia, 90 per cent of these cases remain untreated. The government has come up with new Mental Health Bill 2012. But activists say that the bill doesnt protect the rights of the mentally ill. Mental...
05:34 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has ordered a blanket ban on Tubercolosis antibody tests after the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised an alarm. This came following inaccurate tests that gave false results leading to perfectly healthy patients being put on powerful TB drugs. The WHO had raised the alarm after reviewing 94 studies globally more than a year ago. Deputy DG of the TB division of the Health Ministry...
09:48 AM, Jun 26, 2012
Srinagar: A senior doctor in Srinagar has written to UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after the state Health Minister, Sham Lal Sharma, reportedly hurled verbal abuses at him, calling him a "beast with a beard" and a "fanatic". Dr Mohammad Ashraf Bhat has accused the minister of hurting his religious sentiments. The doctor was visiting the minister over a grievance when he was...
09:26 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on June 7 permitted the Union Health Ministry to undertake online counselling for admission of students to undergraduate medical courses for 15 per cent central seats in government colleges across the country. An apex court bench of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice JS Khehar cleared the decks for online counselling for admissions to MBBS and BDS after it gave the go-ahead to the scheme submitted...
02:29 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted raids in three places in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the NRHM scam. The raids were conducted at the residential premises of former UP health minister Anant Mishra in Lucknow and Kanpur. The action came after an FIR was filed by the CBI nearly two days ago in connection with the appointment of nearly 100 Chief Medical Officers (CMOs)....
08:48 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: It seems that another scandal is set to rock the Health Ministry. A CNN-IBN investigation has revealed that former Medical council of India (MCI) members, close to arrested former chief Ketan Desai, are being brought back into the Medical Council. The Board of Governors that was appointed to clean up the mess is under scrutiny. Two years after Ketan Desai's arrest and dissolution of the Medical Council of...
10:05 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, the government has finally agreed to make this a notifiable disease. That means, every doctor will have to register each case. At least a thousand Indians die of tuberculosis every day. The biggest threat at this point is what experts call totally drug resistant TB, which is incurable, and highly contagious. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Mumbai alone. But...
10:03 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Health Ministry has sacked Medical Council of India Secretary Sangeeta Sharma. This comes days after CNN-IBN reported how she was blocking investigations into the Medical council scam. "My appointment here is permanent. There is no question of deputation," Sharma earlier said. Days after Sharma made that statement on CNN-IBN - her services at the Medical Coucil of India office have been terminated. The decision comes close on...
06:47 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Home Ministry opposes gay sex, but Health Ministry says it will help HIV patients get medical help. ...
09:28 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Mumbai: British scientists conducting a study on superbugs in London have discovered that a highly rare genetic fusion is to blame for the superbug NDM1. This fusion has given NDM1 the power to easily jump between various species of bacteria at a superfast speed, consequently making it drug resistant. The scientists, who first reported the NDM1 last year, have now found that NDM1, by jumping between bacteria strains, can make...
10:06 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: The new regulations on onscreen smoking that were handed out ambitiously by the the Health Ministry have been stalled as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has given in to the plea of the film makers, asking for their creative rights. The I&B Ministry has stayed the no smoking regulations by the Health Ministry. In a letter from the I&B ministry to the Health Ministry, it is clear...
09:49 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Mumbai: The Union Health Ministry has shelved for an indefinite period the much-awaited National Antibiotic Policy which would clamp down on the over-the-counter sale of antibiotics. After sitting on the proposed National Antibiotic Policy for more than an year, the Health Ministry has now decided to put it on hold indefinitely, citing concerns over access to medicines, in rural areas. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Health Minister, said, "It should me made...
09:47 AM, Oct 14, 2011
New Delhi: It's been a year since the Medical Council of India (MCI) was dissolved and its president Ketan Desai arrested. But it seems the rot in the MCI has yet to be cleaned out. A case in point is Dr Sangeeta Sharma, the senior most officer in the MCI. CNN-IBN accessed documents that prove that the Health Ministry raised questions about the validity of her appointment as secretary. In...
06:43 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: Under flak for watering down pictorial warnings on tobacco products, and for coming under pressure from the tobacco lobby, for the first time the government is focusing on beedi smokers. It has planned a new ad campaign to start from Monday and wants to set up 5 labs to test beedi content. The Health Ministry's latest initiative to spread awareness on the ills of beedi smoking is a...
08:29 AM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday sparked off a debate by saying that homosexuality is 'unnatural' and a 'disease'. Speaking at an AIDS conference in New Delhi, Azad said that gay sex is unnatural and leads to more AIDS cases. He added that the phenomenon has been transported to India from 'foreign shores'. "The disease of 'Men having Sex with Men' (MSM), which was found more in...
07:11 AM, Jul 05, 2011
