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Two Maharashtra doctors on Medical Council of India panel

Dr KK Talwar, former director of PGI Chandigarh, is the new chairperson of the Medical Council of India. Talwar replaces country’s top gastroenterologist, Dr SK Sarin.

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Dr KK Talwar, former director of PGI Chandigarh, is the new chairperson of the Medical Council of India (MCI). Talwar replaces country’s top gastroenterologist, Dr SK Sarin.

The Union health ministry on Friday reconstituted the MCI’s board of governors (BoG) with Talwar as its new head and four new doctors replacing the previous BoG members. There are two doctors from Maharashtra in the new team.

The new members are professor KS Sharma (head of anaesthesiology department at Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai), professor Harbhajan Singh Rassam (director, Clinical Cardiac Sciences and Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Max Heart and Vascular Institute, Delhi), Dr Rajiv Chintaman Yeravdekar (dean, faculty of health sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune) and Dr Purushotham Lal (director, interventional cardiology, chairman, Metro Group of Hospitals).

They replace Dr Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Sita Naik, Devi Shetty, Ravinder Nath Salhan and Gautam Sen.

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