What better can we expect from people butchering the constitution for personal gains?

To whom it may concern 

Subject : Delhi Medical Council - Doing Everything Unconstitutional  

Esteemed Sir  

Apropos article (HT March 25) and advertisements in Punjab Kesari March 26, 2003 suggesting Delhites to make sure that treating doctors are registered with Delhi Medical Council. 
The article itself admits that Delhi Medical Council cannot take any action against doctors registered elsewhere. Yes, medical practitioners in Delhi are not bound to be registered with Delhi Medical Council. 
According to Indian Drugs & Cosmetics Act 1940, a registered medical practitioner is one who is either registered with Indian Medical Council or is eligible for registration with IMC and has not been debarred from holding such registration. Hence registration with IMC is desirable but not mandatory (in courts). 
According to Section 21(1) of the IMC Act 1956 
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The Council shall cause to be maintained in the prescribed manner a register of medical practitioners to be known as the Indian Medical Register, which shall contain the names of all persons who are for the time being enrolled on any State Medical Register and who possess any of the recognized medical qualifications. 
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The state medical councils enrol medical practitioners for listing in Indian Medical Register. Dual membership is refused if a practitioner registered with a state medical council applies for direct IMC registration or registration with another state medical council 
According to section 27 of IMC Act 1956 
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Subject to the conditions and restrictions laid down in this Act regarding medical practice by persons possessing certain recognized medical qualifications, every person whose name is for the time being borne on the Indian Medical Register shall be entitled according to his qualifications to practice as a medical practitioner in any part of India and to recover in due course of law in respect of such practice any expenses, charges in respect of medicament or other appliances, or any fees to which he may be entitled 
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The Delhi Medical Council has been established under the Delhi Medical Council Act, 1997. The act cannot be located on internet or in the market. If Delhi Medical Council registers medical practitioners for Indian Medical Register, registration of doctors already registered elsewhere would be void, under IMC Act. If  DMC registration of doctors is not for Indian Medical Register, the legislation itself is void as superceding the provisions of IMC Act. All doctors registered with DMC have to be registered elsewhere too for eligibility to practice even in Delhi. 

Delhi Medical Council comprises some ambitious doctors with political patronage. Perhaps they have never glanced Indian Medical Council Act  and have no aptitude for law and legislation. An occasional article appears every few months and is eventually forgotten. I request the media to verify the statements to avoid misreporting in future. 

Warm regards 

Yours faithfully 
 

(Dr K Chaudhry) 
 
Copy to 
1. Hony Secretary, Delhi Medical Association  Fax 23250428 
2. CMO Fax 
3. LG Fax 
4. PMO Fax 
5. Secretary, MCI  Fax 23236604 
6. Secretary, DMC Fax 23234416 
7. Health Ministry Fax 23014252 
8. Dr AK Walia  Fax 22519060 
9. Director, Health Services Fax 22306396 

1. Secretary, MCI  Fax 23236604 
2. Secretary, DMC Fax 23234416 
3. Health Ministry Fax 23014252 
4. Director, Health Services Fax 22306396 

Subject : Clarification on registration of doctors in Delhi. 

Esteemed Sirs 
Some years ago, I had availed maximum number of duplicate registration certificates issued by Punjab Medical Council. Just to avoid any future emergency, I applied for registration direct with MCI and with UP Medical Council. Both the requests were declined on following ground 
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State medical councils register medical practitioners for enrolment in Indian Medical Register and maintain their own register for administrative needs. A practitioner enrolled in Indian Medical Register cannot be registered again by another state medical council even in cases of physical interstate shift. 
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In view of the contrary practice and propaganda by Delhi Medical Council, you are requested to let me know which of the following options holds true. 

Option 1. Delhi Medical Council registers medical practitioners for Indian Medical Register and dual registration of practitioners already registered elsewhere is now permitted. 

Option 2. Delhi Medical Council registration is not covered by section 21(1) IMC Act 1956. The doctor has to seek additional registration from another state medical council also to be eligible for practice in Delhi. 

Option 3. Delhi Medical Council registration is not covered by section 21(1) IMC Act 1956. Registration with Delhi Medical Council supercedes article 27 of the IMC Act and enrolment in Indian Medical Register is not mandatory for practice in Delhi. 

Warm regards 
Yours faithfully 
 
(Dr K Chaudhry) 
Copy to 
1. Hony Secretary, Delhi Medical Association  Fax 23250428 
2. CMO Fax 
3. LG Fax 
4. PMO Fax 
5. Dr AK Walia  Fax 22519060 
6. Dr Harsh Wardhan  Fax 23712323

Belonging to a big (or the biggest) political party, they may have innumerable achievements to boast of. Every party worker contributes to such achievements and may be ispired by photographs of national and local leaders associated with advertisements displaying such achievements. Where is roll of portraying chief minister and health minister at the top of directives? 

Quarter century ago an MBBS doctors had just two requirements (own confidence and patient's faith) to treat any disease and operate upon any organ. Without any qualified assistants (but competent through experience) and without premises with prescribed specifications, they admitted patients from slums, JJ colonies and middle class population against affordable charges. Every quarter, they either paid bribes to DDA staff or appeared at Patiala House courts for misuse of residential premises. By any criteria, they could not be perceived as threat to healthcare. With mushrooming of such petty nursing homes, Dr NK Grover and his associates U-turned the roll of Delhi Medical Association, connived with DDA officials and others to make rules stringent. With the time, they made sure that a dehydrated patient can be administered intravenous glucose only by a postgraduate doctor who has invested a few crores initially and spends a lakh every month on qualified assistants and equipment maintenance. A decade ago I was stunned when a person entered my nursing home in a car and introduced : 
I am                , Deputy Director, DDA. We were surveying medical establishments and Delhi Medical Association requested us to cooperate and collect information for them also. He gave me a Delhi Medical Association form to fill up. 
I just refused, protested against this over telephone to president and secretary, and faxed his car number to CBI, Chief Minister and Prime Minister. What a role! Delhi Medical Association sending DDA Deputy Director as its representative! 
With unhealthy competition wiped away, a woman aspiring for child birth must make a provision of Rs one lakh for complicated caesarean section - the incedent of which has shot up firstly because the elite breed of doctors has no time to wait for normal delivery and secondly because costly antibiotic vials keep shuffling between chemist shop and patients' rooms without actually being injected. 
The obvious casualty has been MBBS qualification. Every day directives have limited the role of MBBS doctors to referral commission agents. With battery of association leaders very keen to testify "inadequate qualification" in any case of complication, an MBBS doctor now knows the legal implications of the profession involving human lives. More and more doctors are forgetting they ever passed MBBS and are shifting to safer professions. 

March 31, 2003

Dr K Chaudhry

The Secretary 
MCI 
Fax 23236604 

Subject : Hostile response to website bug reporting 

Hi! 

I just rang up to report a bug at 
http://www.mciindia.org/mci-discuss/ 
The page is not showing up three images at the top. 

The concerned person refused to accept my contention. I use IE-5 - perhaps the page does not show up with all browsers. I still doubt, if it is showing correctly with any version. 

As a matter of courtsey, I modified the page and sent to you by email mci@del3.vsnl.net.in 

You are requested to look into the matter and advise the staff to extend a bit more courtsey to the callers. 

Warm regards 
With regards 
Yours faithfully 
 
 

(Dr K Chaudhry) 
31.05.2004 
Page http://www.mciindia.org/mci-discuss/ still not rectified even till 09.06.2006