The Medical Council of India (MCI) has suspended 13 doctors both from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for violating various ethical norms and rules set by the council governing the medical practitioners in the country.

According to sources from MCI, about 9.40 lakh registered doctors are there in the country and the council has received complaints against 129 doctors from across various states in the country. Among them 13 doctors who are registered in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have been found flouting rules and ethical norms set by the council.

Having learnt this, the Council has blacklisted these doctors and had suspended them from a minimum period of 1 year to 4 years depending upon their degree of offence. The MCI has sent the list of all the suspended doctors to the State Medical Councils of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

A source in the APMCI revealed that one medical practitioner named Dr C Swami Naidu was suspended for giving a false death certificate for three persons who are still alive. “Earlier doctor’s profession was regarded as a godly and noble profession. Now-a-days doctors have become very much commercial minded and are not caring for ethical or moral values. Such grave mistakes by professional medical practitioners are taken very seriously. In fact it brings a dark spot on the entire medical community. Such persons should be barred for life time and should not be allowed to practice anymore,” said Dr Moses, president of an NGO.

In an another case of violations by the doctors from the state, Dr Mir Liaqat Ali and Dr V Srinivas Rao did not follow medical procedures properly. Because of their negligence a woman died after being given anesthesia. Similarly MCI has also found violations in medical colleges where one professor is found teaching in two medical colleges simultaneous, which is against the MCI norms.

While in some other cases, the medical council has received complaints that majority of nursing homes and clinics are appointing homoeopathy and ayurvedic doctors where they are found prescribing allopathic medicines, which is against the MCI norms. “Even though there are strict rules set by the MCI, these are not implemented properly. Most of the nursing homes prefer ayurvedic and homoeopathy doctors as they are available for less cost. Because of this it is leading to various problems,” says Dr Ravinder Reddy, chairman of APMCI.