MP High Court issues direction for conducting Competency-Based Evaluation test under Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Rules
The Court ensured that participation in the examination would not interfere with the petitioners’ existing rights.
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[FMGE] Delhi High Court refuses provisional registration as medical practitioner due to criminal case pending for impersonation
The Petitioner is accused of a very serious offence of impersonation. It is the allegation that somebody else appeared on his behalf to take Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE).
Para medical practitioner is not entitled to registration of private clinic under Karnataka Private Medical Establishment Act 2007: Karnataka HC
The High Court earnestly emphasised that “Time has come to pull the curtain down on such people who are practicing medicine without qualification and hoodwinking poor people in rural areas”.
Can License to practice medicine be suspended as a punishment for Contempt of Court? Supreme Court answers
The Calcutta High Court had upheld the suspension of the licence of a medical practitioner who was found guilty of contempt of Court.
‘Rural health practitioners are not medical practitioners’; Assam Rural Health Regulatory Authority Act, 2004 rightly struck down by Gauhati HC: Supreme Court
Observing that performance of functions identical to those performed by medical practitioners by persons who do not possess the qualifications prescribed under the Central Act, could have dangerous consequences, the Supreme Court held that Rural Health Practitioners enlisted under the Assam Act, are underqualified to perform functions similar to those performed by medical practitioners registered in accordance with the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. The Court, however, upheld the constitutionality of the Assam Community Professional (Registration and Competency) Act, 2015 that was enacted to give continuity in service to the practitioners in question.
Ker HC | One-year mandatory internship for foreign medical graduate; HC holds residential internship in India is not mandatory if already done abroad
Kerala High Court: P.B.Suresh Kumar, J., held that the requirement for Medical students who had studied abroad to undergo CRRI for obtaining
Central Government notifies — Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) (Six Months Training) Amendment Rules, 2020
G.S.R. 419(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (i) of sub-section (2) of section 32 of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Bom HC | Plea filed to allow COVID-19 testing without production of medical practitioner’s prescription; Court says “rational use of testing kits warranted”
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Dipankar Datta, CJ and K.K. Tated, J. addressed a matter wherein non-production of prescription for COVID-19
Kar HC | Cognizance of complaint about negligence against a medical practitioner cannot be taken without obtaining an opinion from an expert doctor
Karnataka High Court: Alok Aradhe, J. allowed a petition praying for quashing an order whereby the Principal Civil Judge took cognizance of