Managing Healthcare
Looking Beyond NMC Bill
The National Medical Commission (or NMC) Bill 2017, introduced in Lok Sabha on December 29, 2017, provides for the replacement of the MCI. MCI is elected by medical practitioners across the country, while the proposed 25-member National Medical Commission will be selected by a search committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
In its 92nd report (submitted in March 2016), the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Health and Family Welfare examined MCI’s functioning, and identified problems.
These failures include:
- Failure to produce doctors, including specialists and super specialists
- Shortage of teachers in medical colleges
- Poor regulation of undergraduate and postgraduate ....
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