Medical Council of India is corrupt, says health minister
BMJ 2014; 349 doi:
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g4762
(Published 22 July 2014)
India’s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has described the Indian drug regulator, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), as a “snake pit of vested interests,” and he labelled the Medical Council of India (MCI) a corrupt organisation.
He was responding to questions from the Indian Express after The BMJ published an article by David Berger, a general medicine practitioner who had worked in northern India. In the article Berger chronicled his experiences of working in a corrupt system and said that such corruption was eroding the trust between doctors and patients.1
Berger highlighted the practice of referral payments, in which diagnostic centres pay doctors a commission for each patient referred …
Dark days for medical profession in India
By Roger Collier
You know a profession is corrupt when its practitioners surprise the public more when they refuse bribes than when they accept them. Unfortunately, such is the case with the medical profession in India, says Dr. Subrata Chattopadhyay, a former Erasmus Mundas Master of Bioethics Fellow at Italy’s Università degli Studi di Padova.
“Corruption is endemic,” says Chattopadhyay, who now teaches at an Indian medical college. “If a doctor is corrupt, it doesn’t excite anybody.”
Whether or not it elicited excitement, the recent arrest of Dr. Ketan Desai, a prominent and powerful Indian physician, has certainly elicited change — the most notable being the dissolution of the Medical Council of India (MCI)
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