The present Government and the Health Ministry along with the Board of
Governors, Medical Council of India
The
last awards were given on 1st July, 2008 by the then President Smt. Pratibha
Singh Patil.
For
the medical fraternity, Dr. B.C. Roy National Awards are the highest award,
which a doctor can aspire for. Each year, 15 to 20 awards were
distributed. But, for reasons unknown to the medical fraternity, the Government
and MCI are sitting on the file. I have personally filed an RTI
application in both MCI and Health Ministry but with no response.
It appears that the present Government is not medical fraternity friendly.
- No
further Dr. B.C. Roy National Awards have been given since 2008.
- The
Government is thinking of allowing AYUSH doctors to register under
Allopathic Medical Register.
- The
Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act 2010 was passed
by the Parliament without taking the medical fraternity into confidence.
- There
is a proposal to introduce half-baked medical courses in competition to
Allopathic MBBS without any basis.
- The
Government is not making medical doctors at par with Civil Services by
bringing in the concept of Indian Medical Services along the lines of IAS,
IRS.
- The
Government dissolved the Medical Council of India on the plea that there
was a rampant corruption in the Council. If this is so, then why were the
Coal and IT Ministries not dissolved and brought under the Administrative
Control?
