Government mandates unique ID mandatory for all doctors.
New Delhi : The NMC issued new notification “Regulation of Medical Practitioners and Licence to Practise Medicine Regulations, 2023,” which…
Under Secretary in the Health Ministry held for accepting bribe
New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday said that they have arrested Sonu Kumar, Under Secretary…
DGHS issues Advisory : Avoid “BOOZE” in seminars and conferences
New Delhi : The Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof. (Dr.) Atul Goel has issued an advisory to all…
Union Health Ministry asks 62 private hospitals to consider starting Medical Colleges
New Delhi : The union Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya has advised 62 top charity private hospitals to start imparting MBBS…
MOS Health : NMC rejects proposal to allow pharmacists to write prescription
New Delhi : Minister of State for Health Bharati Pawar in a written reply in Lok Sabha said that the…
MOS Health : NMC rejects proposal to allow pharmacists to write prescription
New Delhi : Minister of State for Health Bharati Pawar in a written reply in Lok Sabha said that the…
Mohfw : Guidelines on medical negligence under consideration
New Delhi : In response to an RTI from PTI to the Ministry of Health(Mohfw) it has been revealed that…
e-Sanjeevani clocks 10 crore tele-consultations
New Delhi : The e-Sanjeevani, the health ministry initiative has clocked 10 crore consultancy and which includes 57% woman and…
Mansukh Mandaviya : UG, PG seats in medical education to be levelled in next four years
Gandhinagar : Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mansukh Mandaviya, has announced that the governments aims to level Undergraduate…
Union Budget 2023 : Spotlight on nursing sector
New Delhi : The Union Budget 2023 has proposed to set up 157 new nursing colleges across the country which…
Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi appointed as the new Drug Controller General of India
New Delhi : Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi, former Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission secretary-cum-scientific director has been appointed as the new Drug Controller…
India’s healthcare sector witnessing big, positive change: Narendra Modi
New Delhi : Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in a written reply to the beneficiaries of a free camp for cataract…
Failure to pay TDS on freebies : 6 months of Imprisonment
New Delhi : the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had directed that the doctors or the hospital in which…
Mohfw : 80% shortfall of specialists in rural India
The rural health statistics revealed by Mohfw indicates a very grim picture of healthcare system in Rural India. Indian villages…
Mohfw appoints 19 Eminent doctors in the Medical Advisory board
New Delhi : 19 Eminent doctors have been selected as a part-time member of the medical advisory board of the…
ICMR & CDSCO admit to “Multiple Side Effects” of Covid 19 Vaccines : Mohfw dismisses report as “Erroneous”
New Delhi : The Union Health Ministry said that media reports asserting that officials from the Central Drugs Standard Control…
Health Ministry proposes to substitute National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS)
New Delhi : A notice has been issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare proposing the replacement of…
CBI probes Medical Council’s across India for offering registration to unqualified Foreign Medicos
New Delhi : The CBI on receiving a complaint from Health Ministry has registered an FIR to probe the registration…
Govt proposes amendment to NMC Act : Govt draft seeks to let patients appeal
New Delhi : In a move that could open another legal worry for the doctors, the centre has proposed to…
CESTAT : Clinical Establishments Providing Health Care Services Are Exempted from Service Tax
New Delhi : The two-member bench headed by Justice Dilip Gupta (President) and P.V. Subba Rao (Technical Member) of the…
744 PG seats vacant after NEET counselling: Health Minister in Rajya Sabha
New Delhi : The Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya replying to a question in Rajya Sabha said that of the…
18 crore hospital admission under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY) – MOS
New Delhi : Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply that approximately 4.18 crore…
Govt setting up integrative medicine divisions in all medical colleges: Health Minister
New Delhi : Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya while addressing a session on ‘Integrative Approach to Health & Well-being’ at…
Hospital charging commercial rates “Not entitled” for registration as “Charitable Organisation” : ITAT
The Hyderabad bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) while adjudicating on an appeal filed by Fernandez hospital stated…
DGCI finds no violation in Maiden Pharma case as claimed by WHO
New Delhi : Country’s drug controller General of India (DCGI) has written a strongly worded letter to Rogerio Gaspar, Director,…
Government to create National Drugs Database to monitor quality of medicines in India
New Delhi : The Ministry of health and family welfare (Mohfw) has decided to constitute a committee of seven members…
Health ministry developing guidelines to eliminate the bond policy for doctors
New Delhi : In a good news to the Medical Fraternity, the Union health ministry is reviewing the bond policy…
Mohfw : No plan to introduce bill on violence against doctors
New Delhi : In response to a Right to Information (RTI) query filed by Dr. KV Babu, a Kannur-based ophthalmologist,…
Freebies to Doctors illegal : ITAT upholds disallowance of expense against Mankind Pharma Ltd
New Delhi : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal(ITAT) has recently observed in a major denial of relief against Mankind Pharma…
Govt Invokes NMC Act Provision : NExT Exam in September 2024
New Delhi : The government has invoked provisions of the NMC Act by which the time limit for conducting the…
ED attaches property of Surya Pharmaceutical
New Delhi : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth Rs 185.1 crore belonging to Surya Pharmaceuticals Ltd and…
India halts production of cough syrups suspected of links to child deaths
New Delhi — The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization has halted production at Maiden Pharmaceuticals company after the World Health…
Health Minister launches Tele-Manas, a 24/7 mental health facility
New Delhi : On the occasion of the World Mental Health Day the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandviya has launched…
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya to offer MBBS in Hindi: Amit Shah
Gandhinagar : At the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new campus of Gujarat Technological University (GTU) in Lekawada of…
India launches community support scheme for ‘adopting’ TB patients
New Delhi : On September 9, 2022 President Droupadi Murmu launched Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan for completely eradicating…
Union Health Ministry launches National Lists of Essential Medicines (NLEM) 2022
New Delhi : Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, launched the National Lists of Essential Medicines…
Twitter war over medical colleges in Telangana : Its KTR vs Mansukh Mandaviya:
Hyderabad : A twitter war has broken between Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and the IT minister of Telangana K…
Government forms committee to regulate marketing practices of pharma companies
New Delhi : The Income Tax Department revelation of the Micro-Lab distributing freebies to doctors upto the tune of Rs.1,000…
Parliamentary panel recommends DoP to be under Mohfw
The Department-Related Parliamentary Committee for the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has recently recommended to the Central government…
DCGI – Notifies classification of 60 medical devices
New Delhi – The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has issued a notification classifying 60 medical devices pertaining to…
NMC : Seeks name & addresses of doctors accused in Micro-Lab case from IT department
New Delhi : Taking forward the probe ordered by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Mohfw) against the doctors…
Parliamentary committee finds discrimination against SC/ST professor and students at AIIMS
The parliamentary committee on welfare of schedule caste and schedule tribe has strongly pulled up AIIMS for its bias against…
Health Ministry plans to double PG seats in next 5 years
New Delhi : To address the acute shortage of specialist doctors in the country, especially in small towns and rural…
PGI MBBS curriculum to have Yoga, Ayurvedic Science
Chandigarh : The Standing Academic Committee (SAC) of PGI Chandigarh has recommended that the concept of yoga science, ayurvedic science…
Mohfw – Doctor: Patient ratio improved to 1: 834
The Ministry of health and family welfare (Mohfw) said that due to multiple steps taken by the Central Government the…
IT Tax Raids in Haryana & Delhi Hospitals
“Exposes rampant cut practice in Healthcare System” New Delhi : The Income Tax Department had raided several business groups that…
ICMR releases book, mobile app for updating, guiding physicians about common conditions
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released volume III of the ‘Standard Treatment Workflows’ a set…
Central Government Hospitals to go paperless : Health Ministry
New Delhi: The Health Ministry has directed all central government hospitals to go digital from July 1. The move is…
Dr B C Roy Award reinstituted
New Delhi : Bringing cheers to the Medical Fraternity, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Mohfw) has reinstituted Dr…
Health Minister orders probe : Doctors come under scanner for “unethical practices”
New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Mohfw) has taken cognizance of the recent findings shared by the…
Prime Minister “Indebt for life by Doctors”
July 1, 2022: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to the Twitter on Friday to wish the country on National Doctors’…
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Mumbai (CPS) derecognized
Debate continues on the culpability but the sufferers are undoubtedly the “ALUMNI” The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Mumbai,…
“Serious Deficiencies” in framing of notification for the National Medical Register
The NMC’s gazette notification titled “Registration of Medical Practitioner and License to Practice Medicine Regulations, 2023,” has serious deficiencies that…
NMC’s National Medical Register (NMR)
Guide to Registration in NMR The National Medical Register (NMR) has finally been notified by the NMC in the form…
Patient Grievance Redressal Mechanism
Necessity or Boaster in India? The traditional outlook of Indian patients has changed dramatically from doctor being considered as fatherly…
Heal in India’ initiative by Mohfw
A promising opportunity for Medical Fraternity India is one of the world’s leading destinations for overseas patients seeking sophisticated treatment.…
Cadaver Organ Transplants still a laggard in India
Doctors can play a decisive role in creating awareness In a major boost to organ transplantation in country, the Union…
Mangaluru Drug Case – “Hall of Shame” for Doctor community
On 1st July Prime Minister tweeted “Doctors Day greetings to all hardworking doctors who play a key role in saving…
Order of Kerala High Court to register FIR in one hour in cases of attack on doctors – Need of the hour
The order of Kerala High Court to register an FIR in one hour in cases of violence against the healthcare…
Ransomware Cyber attack at AIIMS
Eye Opener for Hospitals AIIMS, Delhi had announced January 1st, 2023 of becoming paperless and April, 2023 of becoming completely…
Widespread ramifications of Section 194R of Income Tax Act (ITA) on Healthcare Industry
The income tax department has introduced new Section 194R in the ITA to plug the possibility of tax revenue leakages…
Appropriate time to eliminate quack menace
Medical Associations are the key Quacks posing as doctors has been a serious threat to the society and this threat…
Section 12(ii) of Art Rules, 2022 – May violate Right to Privacy of indenting couple
The ART Act, 2021 and the subsequent ART Rules, 2022 may lead to the violation of the privacy of the…
Healthcare Industry should stop overlooking compliance issues
India is in transition phase moving from an under-developed country to developed country. It has led to the government tightening…
Supreme Court : Unmarried women cannot be denied right to abortion
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India overturned a Delhi High Court Order thereby allowing a Manipur girl deserted by…