New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its nod for the issue of an ordinance to pave the way for an elected body of the apex medical regulator. The term of the Medical Council of India's Board of Governors has ended, rendering the apex medical regulator headless.
Sources said the Cabinet gave its approval to the note for the draft ordinance in this regard which is likely to be issued by the President soon. The need for issue of an ordinance came as the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2013, which allows for an elected apex medical regulator, is yet to be passed by Parliament even though it has been approved by the Cabinet.
The MCI was being run by a seven-member Board of Governors headed by its chairman -- all of whom were nominated by the government. The Board's term expired on May 13. The MCI is without a proper body since then.
The elected MCI body was disbanded by the government and a Board of Governors was installed after its then Chairman Ketan Desai was arrested by CBI on graft charges. The Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2013 seeks to give government powers to remove the President or other MCI office-bearers if they are found indulging in corrupt practices or serious offences of "moral turpitude"....
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09:40 PM, May 16, 2013
Bhopal: A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms. What's more is that in 2012, it had refused to admit students under merit quota, after which the state government had moved court. The...
01:18 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Medical Council of India (MCI) on Friday wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) asking for a probe into a sting operation conducted by CNN-IBN which exposed the sale of post-graduate medical seats in colleges across three states for crores of rupees. The CNN-IBN sting had caught five colleges taking crores for admissions. The MCI has handed over the sting operation tapes to the CBI. The...
06:09 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN on Friday submitted a CD containing the sting operation on how medical colleges in three states are selling post-graduate seats for crores of rupees to the Medical Council of India (MCI). India's top doctors have demanded the government steps in and acts immediately to check the shocking contempt of law displayed by administrators of some private medical and dental colleges. Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad had taken...
04:54 PM, Apr 05, 2013
A CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how medical seats are being sold in black to the highest bidder by private medical colleges in three states. ...
11:52 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Medical Council of India (MCI) on Thursday sought more time from the Supreme Court to make a written submission in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) case. The Supreme Court hinted at considering extension of dateline for admission and interim order could be announced in the next two weeks. Many state government and private universities had moved the apex court against the MCI decision to hold...
01:04 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Even as the Supreme Court's verdict on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical and dental courses is awaited, private colleges have started conducting their own entrance exams. Caught in the middle of the Centre versus state tussle are thousands of students who have no idea what the future holds for them. ...
07:53 AM, Feb 07, 2013
In a fresh twist to the Dental Council scam, letters written by the members of Dental Council of India (DCI), accessed exclusively by CNN-IBN, have raised serious questions against the present Chairman of the Council, Dr Dibyendu Majumdar. This is clearly not the first time when the Dental Council of India is making headlines. CNN-IBN had reported on the story three years back. ...
08:38 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Cardiologist Dr Devi Shetty says that lack of good government colleges in the country is the root cause of all corruption in the medical field. ...
12:04 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, it has been found that several sub-standard medical colleges in the country have been getting permissions from the Medical Council of India. In these colleges, daily wage labourers act as patients and local doctors play professors to get clearances. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against six such medical colleges, saying they were given permission despite flouting norms. And if...
06:26 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Patna: Over 4,000 doctors on Monday abstained from work in Bihar to protest against the Centre's proposal to set up the National Commission of Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) to regulate medical services in the country and related policies, an Indian Medical Association spokesman said. "Over 4,000 doctors abstained from work to protest the Centre's proposal to set up the NCHRH in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI)...
07:01 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has ordered a probe after CNN-IBN reported that officials close to former Medical Council of India chairman Ketan Desai were being allowed a back door entry into the Council. "A committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the Director General of ICMR. The committee will submit its report within two months," Azad said. The Board of Directors, which was given the task...
11:07 AM, May 17, 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: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Medical Council Amendment Bill despite key UPA constituent Trinamool Congress opposed the same. With the passage of the bill, the Medical Council of India (MCI) will come under a proposed National Commission of Human Resources for Health. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad confirmed that the Medical Council Amendment Bill was on Monday passed in the Lok Sabha. The proposed body will...
07:26 PM, May 07, 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
Kapali died during child birth. The hospital claims it was due to a reaction. Her husband Parikshit suspects foul play. ...
08:06 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Bangalore: A year after a case of alleged medical negligence in Karnataka's Santosh Hospital where a woman died in the operation theatre, there has still been no action. The Karnataka Medical Council has refused to suspend the doctors even though the CID has chargesheeted the medical staff. Kapali Patne, 35, died at the operation theatre during child birth on April 16, 2010. The hospital authorities claimed it was death due...
01:27 PM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: One and a half years after the don of the Medical Council of India, Ketan Desai was arrested for taking a bribe of Rs 2 crore, the Central Bureau of Investigation is finally ready with a chargesheet. CNN-IBN has accessed the confidential papers that document how the deal was struck, rules bent, quality of medical education compromised and how money changed hands. The CBI decoded the modus operandi...
08:25 PM, Sep 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: Another controversy in the tainted Medical Council of India (MCI). MCI secretary Dr Sangeeta Sharma has resigned alleging rude and indecent behavior by the Board's Chairman, Dr KK Talwar. Incidentally, the Health Ministry had raised objections about her appointment and asked the Board of Governors if her appointment had been made under the prescribed recruitment rules. The Health Ministry wanted the MCI board to get an ACC approval...
08:26 AM, Jun 23, 2011
