Keen to address the key healthcare concerns affecting the country, experts are pushing for an over-arching lean body for the whole healthcare sector, which is not just centered around MCI alone. Many strongly feel that reforms should be made applicable to other professional bodies as well and have urged the Supreme Court to take a pragmatic view of the whole situation and reconsider the structure and scope of the committee it has constituted recently.

This demand comes in the wake of Supreme Court’s decision on May 2 announcing the appointment of a three-member committee headed by Justice R M Lodha, former chief justice of India; Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin , former chairman of the MCI and Vinod Rai, former comptroller and auditor general of India, to oversee the functioning of MCI till it is reformed. Experts contest that rather than a committee to just oversee the activities of MCI, there should be a body like the ‘healthcare council’ that includes representatives from all the stakeholders.

In a representation sent to the Supreme Court, the Disease Management Association of India (DMAI), an organization with a special consultative status with the United Nations – ECOSEC recently shared their suggestions on overhauling the medical council of India (MCI). In a strongly worded letter, Rajendra Pratap Gupta president of DMAI, advocated that to address the shortfall of healthcare professionals in the country, the government should take immediate steps to set up an over-arching lean body for healthcare on high priority.

"It is imperative to understand that we not only need reforms in the MCI, but also in other professional regulatory bodies like the pharmacy council of India (PCI), nursing council of India (NCI), homeopathic council etc.  Especially since all these bodies are there to protect their own turfs, and no one really cares for the patients for whom the entire healthcare system should operate. If these committees only have doctors, we will see nothing but a ‘medicalised’ reform of healthcare. It is something that we must avoid at all costs, as healthcare must focus on ‘population health’ and not overly on ‘doctors’ . Today, everything in healthcare revolves around the doctors and no wonder, we have ‘treatment based’ healthcare system. Thus we urgently need to address this issue and go beyond doctors," Gupta who is also the member of the Central Council of Health & Family Welfare, health ministry pointed out.











Keen to address the key healthcare concerns affecting the country, experts are pushing for an over-arching lean body for the whole healthcare sector, which is not just centered around MCI alone. Many strongly feel that reforms should be made applicable to other professional bodies as well and have urged the Supreme Court to take a pragmatic view of the whole situation and reconsider the structure and scope of the committee it has constituted recently.

This demand comes in the wake of Supreme Court’s decision on May 2 announcing the appointment of a three-member committee headed by Justice R M Lodha, former chief justice of India; Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin , former chairman of the MCI and Vinod Rai, former comptroller and auditor general of India, to oversee the functioning of MCI till it is reformed. Experts contest that rather than a committee to just oversee the activities of MCI, there should be a body like the ‘healthcare council’ that includes representatives from all the stakeholders.

In a representation sent to the Supreme Court, the Disease Management Association of India (DMAI), an organization with a special consultative status with the United Nations – ECOSEC recently shared their suggestions on overhauling the medical council of India (MCI). In a strongly worded letter, Rajendra Pratap Gupta president of DMAI, advocated that to address the shortfall of healthcare professionals in the country, the government should take immediate steps to set up an over-arching lean body for healthcare on high priority.

"It is imperative to understand that we not only need reforms in the MCI, but also in other professional regulatory bodies like the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), Nursing Council of India (NCI), homeopathic council etc.  Especially since all these bodies are there to protect their own turfs, and no one really cares for the patients for whom the entire healthcare system should operate. If these committees only have doctors, we will see nothing but a ‘medicalised’ reform of healthcare. It is something that we must avoid at all costs, as healthcare must focus on ‘population health’ and not overly on ‘doctors’ . Today, everything in healthcare revolves around the doctors and no wonder, we have ‘treatment based’ healthcare system. Thus we urgently need to address this issue and go beyond doctors," Gupta who is also the member of the Central Council of Health & Family Welfare, health ministry pointed out.













Keen to address the key healthcare concerns affecting the country, experts are pushing for an over-arching lean body for the whole healthcare sector, which is not just centered around MCI alone. Many strongly feel that reforms should be made applicable to other professional bodies as well and have urged the Supreme Court to take a pragmatic view of the whole situation and reconsider the structure and scope of the committee it has constituted recently.

This demand comes in the wake of Supreme Court’s decision on May 2 announcing the appointment of a three-member committee headed by Justice R M Lodha, former chief justice of India; Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin , former chairman of the MCI and Vinod Rai, former comptroller and auditor general of India, to oversee the functioning of MCI till it is reformed. Experts contest that rather than a committee to just oversee the activities of MCI, there should be a body like the ‘healthcare council’ that includes representatives from all the stakeholders.

In a representation sent to the Supreme Court, the Disease Management Association of India (DMAI), an organization with a special consultative status with the United Nations – ECOSEC recently shared their suggestions on overhauling the medical council of India (MCI). In a strongly worded letter, Rajendra Pratap Gupta president of DMAI, advocated that to address the shortfall of healthcare professionals in the country, the government should take immediate steps to set up an over-arching lean body for healthcare on high priority.

"It is imperative to understand that we not only need reforms in the MCI, but also in other professional regulatory bodies like the pharmacy council of India (PCI), nursing council of India (NCI), homeopathic council etc.  Especially since all these bodies are there to protect their own turfs, and no one really cares for the patients for whom the entire healthcare system should operate. If these committees only have doctors, we will see nothing but a ‘medicalised’ reform of healthcare. It is something that we must avoid at all costs, as healthcare must focus on ‘population health’ and not overly on ‘doctors’ . Today, everything in healthcare revolves around the doctors and no wonder, we have ‘treatment based’ healthcare system. Thus we urgently need to address this issue and go beyond doctors," Gupta who is also the member of the Central Council of Health & Family Welfare, health ministry pointed out.