NMC allows the public to complain directly to the National Medical Commission (NMC) about doctors, including medical malpractice. The law will be amended.
The NMC of 2019 has included a provision that the patient can appeal to the National Medical Commission directly or through his relatives in complaints against doctors, such as misconduct at work and medical malpractice. Amend the law. The draft guidelines for this have been released by the Ministry of Health. Comments can be sent to sunilk.gupta35@nic.in or to Under Secretary, Medical Education Policy Section, Ministry of Health, Nirman Bhavan within thirty days.
When the National Medical Council was in place, complaints about doctors could be made directly to the public. Complaints rejected by the State Council may be appealed to the National Council within 60 days. If the state took more than six months to consider the complaint, there was an opportunity to raise it in the council.
However, with the coming into effect of the National Medical Commission in 2019, a rule (Section 30 (3) of the NMC Act) was introduced that only doctors can approach the commission directly with complaints. With this, about 65 complaints submitted by patients at the national level have been dealt with by the NMC in two years. rejected Ophthalmologist and medical activist of Payyannur, Dr. KV Babu’s constant battle with the Ministry of Health paved the way for the amendment.
The National Medical Commission has also decided to form an expert committee to consider the appeals rejected by the state councils.
For this NMC has sought the details of eligible Professors, Additional Professors and Associate Professors. The Ethics and Medical Registration Board of NMC has decided to form a committee comprising experts with teaching experience of six years or more in the fields of cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, oncology and urology.
