MCI for ban on gifts to docs by pharma cos
Bharat Yagnik , TNN 27 November 2009, 01:59am IST
AHMEDABAD: Medical Council of India has written to Union ministry of health and family welfare for an amendment in Indian Medical Council (professional conduct, etiquette and ethics) regulations, 2002, to prohibit doctors from accepting any gift from any pharmaceutical or allied health care industry.
The move is likely to face stiff resistance from the pharma lobby as well as a section of doctors who have been benefiting from largesses showed by the pharma industry. MCI chairman Dr Ketan Desai, an Ahmedabad-based urologist, said the council has forwarded to the Centre an MCI resolution adopted on November 18 titled “Building a healthy relationship based on self-regulation between doctors and pharmaceutical and allied health sector industries and preventing unscrupulous practices by doctors.”
The resolution was passed by the MCI’s executive committee based on the recommendations of a sub-committee.
There are new proposed guidelines for a medical practitioner to carry out, participate in, work in research projects funded by pharmaceutical and allied health care industries. The particular research proposal will need to have due permission from the competent authorities concerned.
Dr Desai said: “If these recommendations are made a part of the ethics regulations of the MCI by suitable amendment, it will go a long way in ushering in a credible, transparent, just and scientific relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical and allied health care industries.”
Does it surprise you that the MCI is taking such belated action
It is just eye wash.
What is it doing against the following.
1. The 50% cut which the doctors receive from Test Labs on all tests, both necessary and unnecessary, which the doctor advises.
2. The doctors earn by scratching each others backs through referrals.
3. The Nursing Homes cheating by keeping patients unnecessarily and not reporting the patient's death so that they can continue billing the relatives.
There are many more complaints against doctors which the MCI has to take up.
What they have done is just the tip of the ice-berg.
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