Mounting pressure on the government, a group of doctors, health activists, civil society members, parliamentarians and former health secretaries have joined hands to launch a national coalition to pre
Mounting pressure on the government, a group of doctors, health activists, civil society members, parliamentarians and former health secretaries have joined hands to launch a national coalition to press for restructuring of the Medical Council of India (MCI).
The move comes a day after the Supreme court used its extraordinary powers and set up a three-member committee, headed by former Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha, to oversee the MCI’s functioning for at least a year, following a damning parliamentary standing committee report in March that said the MCI’s composition was “opaque” and “biased” against the larger public health goals.
Dr Samiran Nundy, dean, Ganga Ram Institute for Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, said the coalition was needed to improve ethics in medical practice.
