Doctors file petition in Madras HC against MCI decision to deregister them

Updated on: Friday, October 26, 2012

A group of doctors attached to the Melmaruvathur Adiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences, Melmaruvathur, has gone on appeal against a decision by the Medical Council of India erasing their names from the State and National medical registers for three to five years.

The doctors have filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court against the MCI punishment meted out to them on the grounds that there is no material evidence for such action, and that the action was unduly harsh.

In August this year, the MCI declared that the names of 32 doctors attached to the college be erased from the registries on the grounds that they had provided falsified information to the Council via Form A. The form is to be filled when a doctor joins a medical college. The MCI charged that the doctors had declared that they were full-time faculty, while they were actually part-time staff at the college. “These doctors were accused of giving false and misleading information regarding their working as full time faculty,” according to the MCI’s public notice.

A.S.Baalaji, legal counsel for the doctors, said the ethics committee (of the MCI) had conducted an enquiry subsequent to issuing a show cause notice. Despite the lack of evidence to show that the petitioners had provided falsified information, it had proceeded to recommend erasure of names.

All the petitioners, 20 of them, were working full time in the medical college, Mr. Baalaji explained, and had private practice after college. “There is no violation with that. Even in government medical colleges, medical faculty are allowed to practice after office hours.”

Their contention is also that the punishment meted out to them was unprecedentedly harsh. They have shown that the maximum censure meted out to doctors so far, for an offence like working in two medical colleges simultaneously, has been two years. In some cases, Mr. Baalaji said, the erring doctors were even let off with an admonishment after they apologised to the Council.

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