Politics Archive


via DNA - Centre cracks the whip on Indian Medical Association for endorsing products.
Sending a strong signal to doctors endorsing products for private companies, Medical Council of India (MCI) has banned top office-bearers of Indian Medical Association (IMA) from practising medicine for six months. IMA’s national president Goparaju Samaram and secretary Dharam Prakash have been removed from [...]


Note: This a guest post by my colleague and neighbour, Dr. George Paul. He is a maxillofacial surgeon and lawyer. He writes and speaks on various legal and ethical issues in medical care. He is also an occasional blogger. This article is also cross-posted in his blog.

In July 2010 the Madras High Court, in a [...]


The Times of India - Credibility of MCI will be restored, says Azad:

As MCI continues to reel under a severe crisis of credibility, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said it was the government’s immediate objective to ensure that the body responsible for regulating medical education in the country worked in a fair [...]


Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]


To overcome the acute shortage and uneven distribution of human resources in public health delivery system, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare aims at overhauling the current regulatory framework. Toward this end, it is proposed to set up a National Council for Human Resources in Health as an overarching regulatory body to achieve the [...]


Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]


Note: This post is a request for support for a healthcare related bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways of Web 2.0.
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That was the first thing that I thought after I read the leader page article by Prof. K. S. Jacob in The Hindu on Thursday.
We need people like this as policy makers. Especially at times like these when those that rule are looking for band-aid solutions like medical conscription to patch up a badly ailing [...]