The Hindu Business Line : Govt to set up body to regulate medical courses

NEW DELHI: The Government is considering setting up a unified body for regulating post-graduate medical courses in the country, Mr Anbumani Ramadoss, Health Minister said on Friday.

Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, he said while Medical Council of India was responsible for under-graduate medical courses in the country, the National Board of Examination and MCI conduct post-graduate courses.

The MCI regulated post-graduate education has not been recognised in many countries while National Board of Education courses are widely accepted including in Middle East and UK.

To harmonise these, Dr Ranjid Roy Choudhary Committee was constituted which has suggested a unified body for conducting post-graduate medical courses.

"We have not yet taken any view," he said.

Mr Ramadoss said with two-third of medical colleges in the country being concentrated in six states including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra, the Government is planning to change regulations to allow Government hospitals to start medical colleges.

Uttar Pradesh has only 16 medical colleges while Bihar and Madhya Pradesh have just eight each.

"There is a big lacuna for which we are going to change the regulations," he said.

The Minister said of the 7,00,000 modern system doctors in the country only 10 per cent are serving in rural areas. On vacancies in MCI, he said on High Court direction, 110 out of 130 vacancies of members of MCI have been filled up. - PTI

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