The Medical Council of India has asked the state unit to remove the name of a senior general surgeon, from its rolls for a period of six months from the date of notification for representing to the apex body that he was a faculty member in two medical colleges in the state. Although the MCI has completed inquiries, it will not be able to remove the doctor's name from the registry according to the Indian Medical Council Act. "Doctors are registered by the state councils.
So, names will have to be removed from the state registry first. Then when the state committee forwards the notice, it is deleted from the Indian medical registry," said an official of the Tamil Nadu state medical council. The deputy secretary of MCI said, "The ethics committee found that the doctor had presented himself as professor and head of surgery at two different medical colleges during the MCI inspection."…
