INDORE: Tightening the noose around diagnostic centres for unethical practices, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has now decided to formulate legal provisions to empower state health department for monitoring activities at the centres. The decision to this effect was taken during an ethics committee meeting chaired by MCI chairperson Muzaffer Ahmed and deputy secretary Ashok Kumar Harit recently.
As a basic provision for immediate action, the health department through state medical council would soon be taking undertaking in a proforma from the registered medical practitioners associated with the diagnostic centres and their in-charge medical directors. The aim behind taking the undertaking is to empower state medical council and health department officials to take action against diagnostic centres on accepting and giving commission for referral of patients.
"We have heard about the decision but we are yet to receive directions in this regard. The decision was taken recently and it might take some time to reach at all levels. On receiving orders, we will launch a drive as per directions in the guidelines," said Indore's chief medical and health officer (CMHO), Dr Ashok Dagaria.
So far, the MCI Code of Ethics Regulations, 2002 governs the conduct of registered medical practitioners and don't cover diagnostic centres/institutions. The state health department is authorized to register nursing homes and hospitals. There is no legal provision which empowers health department to monitor or take action against any diagnostic centre for violating ethical practice and to put a check on their unscrupulous activities.
The MCI has also issued advisory to state medical councils to take immediate action in the cases of complaints of unethical practices of accepting commission for diagnostic test referral. These matters have to be investigated on urgent basis under intimation to the MCI.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Indore/Now-health-department-to-crack-the-whip-on-eMedical-Council-of-India-plan-to-regulate-errant-diagnostic-labs/articleshow/40046312.cms
As a basic provision for immediate action, the health department through state medical council would soon be taking undertaking in a proforma from the registered medical practitioners associated with the diagnostic centres and their in-charge medical directors. The aim behind taking the undertaking is to empower state medical council and health department officials to take action against diagnostic centres on accepting and giving commission for referral of patients.
"We have heard about the decision but we are yet to receive directions in this regard. The decision was taken recently and it might take some time to reach at all levels. On receiving orders, we will launch a drive as per directions in the guidelines," said Indore's chief medical and health officer (CMHO), Dr Ashok Dagaria.
So far, the MCI Code of Ethics Regulations, 2002 governs the conduct of registered medical practitioners and don't cover diagnostic centres/institutions. The state health department is authorized to register nursing homes and hospitals. There is no legal provision which empowers health department to monitor or take action against any diagnostic centre for violating ethical practice and to put a check on their unscrupulous activities.
The MCI has also issued advisory to state medical councils to take immediate action in the cases of complaints of unethical practices of accepting commission for diagnostic test referral. These matters have to be investigated on urgent basis under intimation to the MCI.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Indore/Now-health-department-to-crack-the-whip-on-eMedical-Council-of-India-plan-to-regulate-errant-diagnostic-labs/articleshow/40046312.cms
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