Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan today said the Medical Council of India (MCI) needs reform and there must be more transparency in terms of its functioning.
Vardhan, who was earlier the Union Health Minister and is also a medical practitioner, said that the MCI has the “potential to function better.”
“The MCI could have functioned better. I too feel that the MCI has to be more transparent in terms of its functioning,” Vardhan said.
The Minister was responding to questions posed by journalists after the Director of North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institution of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), AH Ahangar launched a scathing attack against the MCI calling it a “sick Institution” during his address in the presence of the Union Minister.
Ahangar said the MCI is the “road block” for medical education and research for the country and said the “sick institution” must be urgently reformed for the sake of medical education and research.
“The MCI is the biggest roadblock for medical education in India. It is a dead horse on a pacemaker. Unfortunately the monitor showing picks doesn’t mean the Institution is alive,” Ahangar said.
He said the MCI “must be taken care of” which in turn would help medical education and research in India. “If MCI is taken care of than medical education in India would be much better and India would not only be able to take care of itself but would also be able to export manpower to the rest of the world by 2050,” he added.
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