State councils blame MCI for docs’ registry mess
Rema.Nagarajan@timesgroup.com 11.08.2018
Several State Medical Councils have expressed shock at the Medical Council of India (MCI) submitting outdated and wrong data to Parliament year after year. According to the office bearers of these councils, they have been sending updated lists to the MCI but do not see it reflected in the Indian Medical Register (IMR). Maintaining the IMR is one of the fundamental and statutory duties of the MCI.
While MCI had told TOI that the state councils were to blame for not regularly sending information on registered doctors to it, most state councils refuted this allegation.
In the case of Karnataka, for instance, the MCI data submitted to Parliament recently showed 1.04 lakh doctors registered. The data MCI gave TOI also said the state council had not submitted any data in 2015 or 2016. However, the state council insisted that it has been submitting data every quarter. The Karnataka Medical Council started the process of re-registration of doctors every five years in 2013 and after renewal had about 1,23,436 doctors in the registry as of March 2018, nearly 20,000 more than the MCI data shows.
“It is disrespect to Parliament to not make any effort whatsoever to give the latest data and not even explain to Parliament that the data being submitted has not been updated. A statutory body like the MCI is not expected to behave like this,” said KMC president, Dr H Veerbhadrappa.
Similarly, the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) has not only done the process of re-registration of doctors every five years, the entire list of 86,567 doctors registered with it is available on the council’s website.
Rema.Nagarajan@timesgroup.com 11.08.2018
Several State Medical Councils have expressed shock at the Medical Council of India (MCI) submitting outdated and wrong data to Parliament year after year. According to the office bearers of these councils, they have been sending updated lists to the MCI but do not see it reflected in the Indian Medical Register (IMR). Maintaining the IMR is one of the fundamental and statutory duties of the MCI.
While MCI had told TOI that the state councils were to blame for not regularly sending information on registered doctors to it, most state councils refuted this allegation.
In the case of Karnataka, for instance, the MCI data submitted to Parliament recently showed 1.04 lakh doctors registered. The data MCI gave TOI also said the state council had not submitted any data in 2015 or 2016. However, the state council insisted that it has been submitting data every quarter. The Karnataka Medical Council started the process of re-registration of doctors every five years in 2013 and after renewal had about 1,23,436 doctors in the registry as of March 2018, nearly 20,000 more than the MCI data shows.
“It is disrespect to Parliament to not make any effort whatsoever to give the latest data and not even explain to Parliament that the data being submitted has not been updated. A statutory body like the MCI is not expected to behave like this,” said KMC president, Dr H Veerbhadrappa.
Similarly, the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) has not only done the process of re-registration of doctors every five years, the entire list of 86,567 doctors registered with it is available on the council’s website.
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