Union health ministry proposes doing away with NEET-PG; says MBBS final exam enough for admissions to MD, MS
• 6 years agoUnion Health Ministry proposed to do away with NEET-PG, making final MBBS examination for admission to MD and MS programmes.
President gives nod to ordinance disbanding Medical Council of India; interim board to take over defunct body
Pankaj Kumar • 6 years agoThe Centre took to the ordinance route as it failed to get the National Medical Commission Bill passed in the Monsoon Session of Parliament this year despite it being listed.
Centre to push amended NMC Bill in Parliament: Will replacing MCI lead to redemption of medical education?
Pankaj Kumar • 7 years agoNarendra Modi govt is determined to see the contentious NMC Bill pass, expected to be tabled in Parliament during the upcoming Monsoon Session.
Medical reforms in India, part-II: NMC Bill legalises quacks; ill-trained AYUSH doctors will further compromise rural healthcare
Raghuraj S Hegde • 7 years agoThe proposed six-month bridge course in the NMC Bill, allowing AYUSH and homeopathy practitioners to prescribe modern medicines, is a devious attempt to propagate its nationalistic propaganda