Health Bulletin 03/ April/ 2025 - Video

Currently, there is no proposal for setting up any special tribunal to deal with medical negligence cases, Union Minister of State for Health for Health, Smt. Anupriya Patel informed the Parliament recently.

However, Minister Patel informed that the Medical Council of India (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 stipulates that any complaint regarding professional misconduct of a medical practitioner can be brought before the appropriate Medical Council for disciplinary action.

The association announced plans to extend these demonstrations to other districts in collaboration with various pensioners’ and employees’ organizations facing similar issues. Addressing the gathering, association president Dr. D.C. Sharma, along with vice-president Dr. D.S. Bhullar and other senior members, criticized the government for prioritizing excessive advertising expenses instead of addressing the financial struggles of retired doctors. They urged the administration to release the pending pension arrears in a single installment without further delay.

"Tthere are a total number of 74,306 Postgraduate seats and 1,18,190 MBBS seats in the country," Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Smt. Anupriya Patel stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha recently.

The Minister was responding to the queries raised by Niranjan Bishi and Sulata Deo regarding the number of postgraduate (PG) and MBBS graduates passing out each year from medical colleges in each State during the last five years, year-wise and State-wise; and the doctors to patient ratio in each State of the country with a comparison of 2004 and 2024, alongwith the number of doctors and total population for each State during those years.

More than half of the sanctioned faculty posts and around 84 percent Senior Resident, 83 percent Junior Resident doctors posts in medical colleges under the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), Punjab, are lying vacant, revealed a recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.

While 51.38 percent sanctioned posts of Professors were vacant, there were a 63.82 percent vacancy for the posts of Associate Professors and 42.68 percent vacancy for the posts of Assistant Professor, revealed the CAG Report on performance audit of Public Health Infrastructure and Management of Health Services.