MCI website down for 2 weeks, docs & students left guessing
Rema.Nagarajan@timesgroup.com 10.10.2018
Thousands of medical students, doctors and patients are in the dark on regulatory issues, with the website of the Medical Council of India shutting down following the disbanding of the council through a presidential ordinance on September 26.
Close to a fortnight after the website with all information related to medical education, minutes of various meetings regarding approval for medical colleges and schedules listing recognised medical qualifications shut down, people were left wondering what was in store as there was no official communication regarding the website or the functioning of the Board of Governors (BoG).
Dr Sanjay Srivastava, the secretary general appointed to help the BoG which has taken over all functions of the council, told TOI that the website should be up within the next two days. Dr Srivastava said that the old and new websites of the council contained several terrabytes of data which had to be backed up and saved before the website could be launched again.
Asked about all the patients or doctors who had cases to be heard by the ethics committee of the former council, he said those with cases before the committee had been informed individually about the progress. “The old committee does not exist as its members belonged to the disbanded medical council. The BoG has to constitute a new committee to hear all the pending cases,” Srivastava said.
There are also cases of approval of new medical colleges or proposals to increase the number of seats in existing colleges and applications filed under the Right to Information. About 180 medical colleges are learnt to be awaiting recognition. “Emergency cases are being dealt with as per provisions of the regulations that were in place already. All the duties of the ministry and the council have been assigned to the BoG,” said Dr Srivastava.
With the only regulatory body for doctors and medical education in limbo, there is concern regarding the fate of many issues that were pending with the now disbanded council.
Rema.Nagarajan@timesgroup.com 10.10.2018
Thousands of medical students, doctors and patients are in the dark on regulatory issues, with the website of the Medical Council of India shutting down following the disbanding of the council through a presidential ordinance on September 26.
Close to a fortnight after the website with all information related to medical education, minutes of various meetings regarding approval for medical colleges and schedules listing recognised medical qualifications shut down, people were left wondering what was in store as there was no official communication regarding the website or the functioning of the Board of Governors (BoG).
Dr Sanjay Srivastava, the secretary general appointed to help the BoG which has taken over all functions of the council, told TOI that the website should be up within the next two days. Dr Srivastava said that the old and new websites of the council contained several terrabytes of data which had to be backed up and saved before the website could be launched again.
Asked about all the patients or doctors who had cases to be heard by the ethics committee of the former council, he said those with cases before the committee had been informed individually about the progress. “The old committee does not exist as its members belonged to the disbanded medical council. The BoG has to constitute a new committee to hear all the pending cases,” Srivastava said.
There are also cases of approval of new medical colleges or proposals to increase the number of seats in existing colleges and applications filed under the Right to Information. About 180 medical colleges are learnt to be awaiting recognition. “Emergency cases are being dealt with as per provisions of the regulations that were in place already. All the duties of the ministry and the council have been assigned to the BoG,” said Dr Srivastava.
With the only regulatory body for doctors and medical education in limbo, there is concern regarding the fate of many issues that were pending with the now disbanded council.
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