Health Bulletin 02/ April/ 2025 - Video

To make medical education more affordable and accessible to candidates who have merit but lack financial strength, a Parliamentary health committee has recommended in its report to make private medical education cheaper and regulate capitation fees in medical colleges.

In its one hundred sixty third report on demands for grants 2025-2026 of the Health Department, the Department-reated Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has recommended, "Private medical education should be made cheaper and the Capitation fees needs to be regulated to make the medical education more affordable and accessible to merit candidates with poor financial background."

Pointing out the violation of existing norms, the principal of Patna-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) has alleged being 'humiliated' after a medical college professor was made faculty in-charge of the medical college.

Writing to the State Health Department, the IGIMS Principal, Dr Ranjeet Guha, alleged that due to the "humiliation and torture", he has been facing depression, which is getting "so acute and intense" that he "sometimes feel to kick the bucket by committing suicide”.

The Majority of the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2025 aspirants have been opposing the idea of conducting the PG medical entrance examination in two shifts.

According to a recent poll conducted by Shiksha.com, when asked about their opinions on the two-shift NEET PG 2025 examination, 89% of the of the respondents in the poll opposed the idea. While 89% of respondents said "No" to the NEET PG exam in two shifts, 9% respondents supported the idea and the remaining 2% were undecided

Two employees of Pandit BD Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHSR) in Rohtak have been dismissed after being found involved in the ongoing MBBS exam scam.

The employees, identified as Roshan Lal, a computer operator, and Rohit, an assistant, were accused of tampering with answer sheets during the annual and supplementary MBBS examinations, allowing students to re-write their answers.