T he Secretary General of Medical Council of India (MCI) has resigned from the post although the health and family welfare ministry has not issued any clarification on the step. MCI, which is the the apex body that regulated medical education in the country, on its website had last updated the page on February 19 which has mentioned that a professor is taking over as the Acting Secretary General. A former deputy director general at the directorate general of health services (DGHS), had been appointed the secretary general to assist the Board of Governance (BOG) last year which was formed by the government through an ordinance.
The seven members in the BOG include three doctors from the AIIMS. Government was unable to clear the MCI BILL from Rajya Sabha after clearing it from Loksabha to form a National Medical Council to govern Medical treatment and education in country replacing old…
