New Delhi: Lancet criticized what he described as “systemic corruption and inefficiency” in the National Medical Commission (NMC) after the corruption scandal appeared on the Indian top regulatory regulation of medical education.
The prestigious report of the medical diary was published on 19 July, which was concerned about the integrity of medical education and again about the future quality of health care in the country.
On 30 June, the Central Office for Investigation (CBI) filed a criminal case named 34 individuals, including officials from the Ministry of Health and Family and NMC care and several doctors responsible for the Shri Rawatpura Sarkar Institute of Medical Science and Research in Nava Raipur.
This happened after searching at more than 40 locations in five countries. The findings of CBI describe in detail how government officials have associated their hands with private medical universities to manipulate the regulatory process.
Three NMC inspectors and three Shri Rawatpura Sarkar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Nava Raipur were arrested £55 Lakh. NMC inspectors reportedly took a bribe for university approval.
According to CBI, officials of the Ministry of Health received unauthorized access to confidential information on the regulatory state of medical faculties, including inspection plans and the composition of inspection teams. The information was shared with intermediaries who in turn pointed out the medical faculties.
“Such previous publication allowed medical faculties to organize fraudulent measures, including bribery assessors to ensure favorable reports of inspections, deployment of non -existent or proxy faculty (Ghost Faculty) and adoption of fictitious patients by project compliance during inspections,” subordinate according to FIR.
Lancet said NMC “lacks a clear action plan and is defended by centralized power and bureaucratic inefficiency.”
NMC 14 July said he was taking the corruption scandal “very seriously”. Four evaluators decided on the blacklist and do not renew chairs for six medical faculties for the academic year 2025-26.
The annual reception of MBBS courses in India is about 118,000. With 1 3 million registered practices, India has one doctor for every 1,263 people, while the World Health Organization recommends one per 1000.
The report stated that the government, in an effort to address the lack of doctors, initiated an effort to increase MBBS, which has sought 75,000 new seats in the next five years.
“This pressure has led to a fast opening of new medical faculties and existing ones. NMC even has relaxed rules for the appointment of the faculty to deal with lack and support this expansion. Under pressure, it quickly expanded in advance and post -ray and post -ray seats),” MCI said in advance).
The report has pointed out that if NMC focuses only on quantity, the quality of future doctors will be at risk, which will have an impact on the provision of health care, emphasizing the critical need for the NMC to follow and enforce standards in medical education to protect public health in India.
Dilip Bhanusahli, President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), expressed deep concern about the bribery scandal in medical education, expressed the report in medical education. He said that the involvement of the NMC seriously damaged its image and public confidence.
“IMA strongly requires the strictest and time -bound punishment for all accused and institutional mechanisms to avoid repetitions. We ask the government to engage IMA in matters of health and medical education.”
Concerns about new medical faculties, which do not have enough facilities or pedagogical staff, have also been worried. Bhanusahli called on a strong law to protect healthcare professionals, a quick action against false doctors and stopping “mixopathy” (combining different medical systems).
Questions sent by spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, Lancet Journal and Minister NMC remained unanswered until the press.
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