These days Private hospitals are resorting to every possible way to market themselves to be seen in the media. A private hospital recently advertised saying USA trained surgeons coming over to treat Cleft Lip and other ENT ailments for free. I have been noticing such adverts and later TV coverage these days. Few practical questions for those hospitals arranging doctors from abroad treating patients in India 1. MCI and State medical councils have made it mandatory for a doctor to be registered officially to practice medicine.
When private hospitals arrange doctors from the west to come over to India and operate, are they taking legal and medical clearance from the respective medical councils? My knowledge is, none of them are bothered about this basic stipulation. A doctor trained in India to practice in the west has to go through umpteen number of registrations and paperwork. A country…
