About a thousand foreign doctors are given temporary permission to do various procedures like live surgery demonstrations in India each year. This year, 676 foreign doctors have already been given permission. The Medical Council of India (MCI), which recommends to the health ministry that permission be given, said it does not have information about how many such permissions were being used to do live surgeries (surgery that is broadcast live to an audience of surgeons, usually during surgical conferences via a video link from the operation theatre). It claimed the health ministry would have the data.
This was revealed by the MCI in response to questions regarding the regulatory framework for allowing foreign doctors to do procedures in India. In 2013, MCI recommended 1,009 cases of foreign doctors for such permission by the ministry. In 2014 it was 959 cases. While MCI maintains the…
