Punjab Medical Council

With the COVID-19 vaccine in the final stages of operationalisation in India, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday announced that he will take the first shot of the vaccine in the state, once it is cleared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

The coronavirus cases across the country took another huge jump on Sunday, touching 396 by 6 pm. The day's spike was 81 - a shade above Saturday's 79, said the Indian Council of Medical Research, the country's nodal agency for COVID-19 testing. As the numbers spiked, the government tightened safety measures, shutting down passenger train service, i...

Senior officials of the Punjab government today met the Medical Council of India (MCI) officials to work out the modalities for shifting of students of the Chintapurni Medical College in Pathankot to other colleges.

The Punjab Medical Council has suspended the registration of two doctors who were acting as "ghost faculty" in two separate medical colleges in Haryana. The orders for 6-month suspension were issued at the direction of the Medical Council of India.

In the second part of our investigation, we discovered a web of dubious fixers and so-called placement agencies, which supply doctors of all specialties wholesale to colleges, and even claim they can manage the MCI, the main authority meant to vet medical colleges, and issue a license.

Imagine being treated by doctors who are not qualified, because they went to a college which hired 'ghost' faculty, private practitioners hired for 2-3 days simply to help get the college its licence.

The Indian Medical Association's decision to hold a meeting of its top officials, a group of 50 top doctors, at a holiday destination in Thailand was reversed on Monday evening after it was questioned by the Punjab Medical Council - a regulatory body under the state government. The Council had demanded that the venue be changed to somewhere within ...

The Punjab Medical Council's bid to take action against ghost teachers in private medical colleges has hit a road block, with state medical education minister, Anil Joshi, opposing the move, hundreds of faculty members in various colleges are allegedly running their own private practice hundreds of kilometers away, raising questions on the teaching...

With the COVID-19 vaccine in the final stages of operationalisation in India, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday announced that he will take the first shot of the vaccine in the state, once it is cleared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

The coronavirus cases across the country took another huge jump on Sunday, touching 396 by 6 pm. The day's spike was 81 - a shade above Saturday's 79, said the Indian Council of Medical Research, the country's nodal agency for COVID-19 testing. As the numbers spiked, the government tightened safety measures, shutting down passenger train service, i...

Senior officials of the Punjab government today met the Medical Council of India (MCI) officials to work out the modalities for shifting of students of the Chintapurni Medical College in Pathankot to other colleges.

The Punjab Medical Council has suspended the registration of two doctors who were acting as "ghost faculty" in two separate medical colleges in Haryana. The orders for 6-month suspension were issued at the direction of the Medical Council of India.

In the second part of our investigation, we discovered a web of dubious fixers and so-called placement agencies, which supply doctors of all specialties wholesale to colleges, and even claim they can manage the MCI, the main authority meant to vet medical colleges, and issue a license.

Imagine being treated by doctors who are not qualified, because they went to a college which hired 'ghost' faculty, private practitioners hired for 2-3 days simply to help get the college its licence.

The Indian Medical Association's decision to hold a meeting of its top officials, a group of 50 top doctors, at a holiday destination in Thailand was reversed on Monday evening after it was questioned by the Punjab Medical Council - a regulatory body under the state government. The Council had demanded that the venue be changed to somewhere within ...

The Punjab Medical Council's bid to take action against ghost teachers in private medical colleges has hit a road block, with state medical education minister, Anil Joshi, opposing the move, hundreds of faculty members in various colleges are allegedly running their own private practice hundreds of kilometers away, raising questions on the teaching...