An Australian doctor, who exposed corruption in Indian healthcare last year, has blamed the Medical Council of India (MCI) for continuing with poor regulatory norms that failed to curb corrupt practices in the medical sector. “The MCI is not doing its work. There is lack of regulatory oversight and if needed, MCI should be sidelined. Honest doctors must be involved in medical regulations,” said David Berger, a Swiss-origin doctor, currently practicing in Australia.
Berger not only documented how kickbacks and corrupt practices are ruining the doctor-patient relationship in India. Berger wrote about his experience of spending several months at a clinic in Landour near Mussourie in Uttarakhand. “India’s doctors and medical institutions live in an unvirtuous circle of referral and kickback that poisons their integrity and destroys any chance of a trusting relationship with their…
