With unqualified doctors posing serious risks to the health of unsuspecting patients, Delhi Medical Council will upload the names of registered doctors on its website.
Have you had a brush with unregistered medical practitioners or are wary of running into unqualified local quacks posing as medicine experts? Then identifying the right from the wrong will no more be a problem for you.
With unqualified medical practitioners posing serious risks to the health of unsuspecting patients, Delhi Medical Council is in the process of uploading the names of registered
doctors on its website -- a list that will enable all citizensto locate the right doctors in their localities.
The list of medical practitioners will include the names of all 40,000 doctors registered with the medical monitoring body and provide an ideal guide to people seeking such
information.
"There are as many as 40,000 registered medical practitioners in Delhi, who are being listed by the DMC. We are in the process of finishing the task that aims at checking
medical negligence and quackery," Dr Girish Tyagi, Registrar of Delhi Medical Council (DMC) said.
Registration with the DMC is mandatory, for practising Allopathy system of medicine in the National Capital Territory. However, a larger number of self-proclaimed doctors
continue to practice in all localities of Delhi.
The move is the latest in line with the Council's efforts to check mushrooming of quacks. While it might not put a break on the phenomenon, it will help citizens take informed
decisions, the body believes.
The DMC, which receives hundreds of complaints against such 'doctors', has filed over 70 cases against them in the last 2-3 years. On receiving complaints against unscrupulous practitioners, the DMC gets in touch with the concerned CDMOs and SHOs, who in turn verify their presence.
"To check the credentials of such practitioners, we ask them to appear before us with their testimonies, failing which cases are filed against them in courts," Tyagi said.
Under power vested with the DMC under Section 10 (a) of the Delhi Medical Council Act 1997, the Council maintains a live register of qualified medical practitioners. Persons registered with the Council are also entitled to apply for entering additional qualifications acquired by them.
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