MUMBAI
The Indian Medical Association and several other bodies have said that the NMC will cripple the functioning of the medical profession by making it answerable to the bureaucracy and non-medical administrators
The parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare has sought suggestions and comments on the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2017 after a demand by doctors for a review.
While the Centre has argued that the Bill is beneficial to the profession, the Indian Medical Association and several other bodies have said that the NMC will cripple the functioning of the medical profession by making it answerable to the bureaucracy and non-medical administrators.
The Bill proposes to repeal the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, constitution of the NMC and establishment four separate medical education boards for under graduate, post graduate, medical assessment and rating and ethics and medical registration. The Centre will nominate 25 members on NMC while five (part time) will be elected by the registered medical practitioners from amongst themselves .
The standing committee member and the Shiv Sena MP from Thane Dr Shrikant Shinde told DNA,''There should be more elected members instead of nominated ones on the NMC. On the provision of inspection of colleges and imposition of penalty from one and half times to ten times, doctors have raised objections saying that it will lead to inspector raj and corruption.'' He informed that the Bill proposes that up to 40% seats will be regulated by NMC and 60% by private medical colleges. Instead, it should be at least 40 or 50%.
KEM Hospital Dean Dr Avinash Supe said conceptually the Bill is in a right direction to ensure uniformity, transparency and quality of medical education. ''However, the committee needs to look into objections raised with regard to nomination of members on NMC, regulation up to 40% seats by NMC, allowing practitioners of homoeopathy and Indian systems of medicine to prescribe allopathic medicine upon completion of a "bridge" course. There is need for balancing the numbers of nominated and elected membes on NMC. Regulatory bodies for medical education should have pillar and not hierarchical structure. The pillar structure would ensure distributed governance and prevent corrupt practice,'' he noted.
Dr Surendrakumar Mathur, formerly professor of surgery at GS Medical College proposed that the members on NMC be nominated on the basis of merit that is achievements in the field of academics and medical education. He suggested that doctors, who found to be indulged into unethical practices, should not be tried with criminal charges but they should be punished in a graded fashion leading to suspension of license.
The Bill proposes to repeal the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, constitution of the NMC and establishment four separate medical education boards for UG and PG studies.
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