Health Ministry suggest to scrap MCI

Updated on: Friday, August 28, 2009

Bengaluru: Union Health Ministry has suggested the scrapping of all Medical Education regulatory bodies and instead merging all of them or setting up of a single regulatory body.
The move aims at carefully delinking the entire medical academia from the existing regulatory bodies and setting up the National Council for Human Resources in Health Sector (NCHRH) as an over-arching regulatory body for the health sector to reform the current regulatory framework and enhance the supply of skilled personnel

As per the recommendations, regulatory bodies including the Medical Council of India (MCI), Dental Council of India (DCI), Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), Nursing Council of India (NCI) and Councils under the Department of AYUSH would be scrapped.

The NCHRH, as suggested by the Task Force, will oversee the working of the existing medical bodies and deal with the assessment and accreditation of medical institutions across the country.

According to sources, the Task Force is also looking into critical and important matters such as shortage of doctors, cross-connectivity in medical education and creating new resources.

Once the Task Force is ready with its recommendations, a draft bill for amendments in the Medical Council Act 1956 will then be made which will be sent to the Ministry of Law and the Prime Minister's Office .

Health Ministry suggest to scrap MCI

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