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HC directs Tiruvarur Govt Medical College Hospital Dean, Collector to deposit ₹5 lakh towards medical negligence

HC directs Tiruvarur Govt Medical College Hospital Dean, Collector to deposit ₹5 lakh towards medical negligence

Justice S.M. Subramaniam orders that the Principal Subordinate Court in Tiruvarur can proceed with attachment of movable properties in the hospital and Collector’s office if the money is not deposited by Jan 10

December 24, 2022 08:56 pm | Updated 08:56 pm IST - CHENNAI

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The Madras High Court has directed the Dean of the Government Medical College Hospital in Tiruvarur district and the Collector to deposit ₹5 lakh awarded as compensation to a woman who had lost vision in her eye, due to medical negligence, after a surgery performed at the hospital in 2015.

Justice S.M. Subramaniam ordered that the entire award amount should be deposited on or before January 10, 2023 to the credit of an execution petition pending before the Principal Subordinate Court in Tiruvarur failing which the Sub Court could proceed with attachment of the movable properties in the hospital and the Collectorate.

The orders were passed on a civil revision petition moved jointly by the Dean as well as the Collector against an attachment order passed by the Sub Court on September 29, 2022 on the victim’s 2017 execution petition since the officials had not paid the compensation amount awarded to her in 2016.

Not finding any justification in the revision petition filed by the officials, the judge said, the officers had slept over the matter since 2016 and had not challenged the ex-parte award passed in favour of the victim Vijayakumari. After six years, they had now moved the High Court against the attachment proceedings. “As far as the present Civil Revision Petition is concerned, this court does not find any reason to interfere with the order of attachment passed by the execution court,” the judge wrote.

However, in order to maintain the decorum of the public offices and the inconvenience that people might have to face if the movable properties of the office of the Dean and the Collector get attached, the judge ordered that the attachment order could be kept in abeyance till January 10, 2023.

If the officials do not deposit the entire award amount by then, the Sub Court could proceed with the attachment order, he said before directing the High Court Registry to communicate a copy of his order to the victim woman.

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CBI lens on foreign medical graduates working without clearing test

CBI lens on foreign medical graduates working without clearing test

TNN | Dec 27, 2022, 02.23 AM IST

NEW DELHI: On a complaint filed by the health ministry, the CBI has initiated a probe to ascertain how dozens of foreign medical graduates allegedly got themselves registered with the state medical councils (SMCs) or Medical Council of India (MCI) without qualifying the foreign medical graduate examination (FMGE). At least 73 such candidates, who studied medicine in different countries, are under the scanner, sources said adding that many of these candidates studied in Russia, Ukraine and China between 2011 and 2022.

An FIR under sections of prevention of corruption act apart from IPC sections pertaining to criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery has been registered.

As per existing regulations, any student who pursued medicine from an institution abroad must qualify a screening test called the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) to get a provisional or permanent registration with the National Medical Commission (NMC) or State Medical Councils (SMCs) and practice medicine in India.

In his complaint to CBI, an under secretary in the health ministry cited two letters dated September 12 and October 17 received from the National Board of Examinations (NBE) informing that it had identified 73 such candidates who had not qualified the screening test as per NBE records but were likely to have obtained registration with various SMCS in the country. The NBE also provided the list of these 73 candidates specifying the details of their registration with the SMCs.

“Their registration status has been verified with the official websites of the NMC and respective SMCs. Such fraudulent and fake registration by non-qualified persons will be detrimental to the health and well-being of citizens. It has inter-state ramifications in health sector. It also involves many states spread across the country. It is requested to investigate how these non-qualified persons managed to get registration in India,” reads the ministry’s letter to the CBI.

The National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBE-MS) has been entrusted with the responsibility to conduct the screening test for the foreign medical graduates possessing a primary medical qualification awarded by any medical institution outside India.

“It is suspected that an organised racket was at play through which the candidates managed to register themselves with the state medical councils by paying a bribe amount. The role of a few officials in these councils is being investigated,” a source said. The agency is in the process of recording the statements of these 73 candidates to ascertain how they managed to get their registration.

As of now it is unclear if any of the students airlifted from Ukraine were on the list.

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