MCI SHOULD ALLOW ONLY MBBS DOCTORS TO TREAT PATIENT AS  TO SIGN A  LAB REPORT 

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A pathology report can only be signed by a qualified doctor registered with the Medical Council of India (MCI). The MCI in it’s latest order has specified that “All reports/letters have to be signed/countersigned by persons registered with MCI/State Councils”. MCI issued the statement in response to a three-year-old query from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), which is a constituent board of Quality Council of India.

It wanted to know if M.Sc-PhD candidates not registered with the MCI can sign lab reports. This would include experts with PhD degrees in medical microbiology, medical biochemistry, life sciences, applied biology, cytogenetics and biotechnology.

“The ethics committee considered the matter during its meetings on February 6 and 7, and their decision was placed before Executive Committee for approval on April 11,” said Dr Parul Goel, Deputy Secretary, MCI. The order impacts pathological laboratories across India.

Following their decision, from June 14, 2017, labs report can only be signed by qualified doctors and not by M.Sc-PhD fellows. “This means reports signed by non-doctors after the said date will be illegal in the eyes of law,” said Pune-based advocate Rohit Erande. Meanwhile, opinion of the health ministry is being sought on the matter. Malpractices involving lab technicians signing pathology reports are rife in India.

“In many cases, approving signatures on a wrong analysis result in false positives of dengue or malaria and have led to wrong treatment,” said Dr Rajesh Mane of Maharashtra Association of Practicing Pathologists and Microbiologists (MAPPM), an umbrella body of qualified pathologists.

Many Msc.,Bsc microbiology,biochemistry passed students or BMLT or DMLT sign Pathological reports ,although having no knowledge of patients clinically as in their curicullam they hardly interact patients so often their reports put treating Doctors in a fuss ,so MCI cleared the position clearly.

The National M.Sc. Medical Teachers’ Association (NMMTA) requested the Medical Council of India (MCI) to review its notification which clarified that only MBBS doctor can sign lab reports. As per the MCI’s notification the candidates having M.Sc with PhD or PhD in medical microbiology, medical biochemistry, life sciences, applied biology, cytogenetics and biotechnology are not eligible for singing lab reports.

“The recent letter written by the Medical Council of India (MCI) to the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) regarding eligibility to sign diagnostic laboratory reports has not gone down well with the biomedical scientists possessing medical M.Sc. degree,” NMMTA President Sridhar Rao said.

                As many such experts are encroaching medical field without direct knowledge of medicine in a hospital so it is considered as a very good step by MCI to let MBBS doctors who are well qualified and undergo a vigorous exhausting training to deal with patient. These 2-3 years special study and then replacing MBBS or superspecialist doctors  should not be allowed.

        Similiarly MCI should never allow to replace MBBS doctors for treatment of patients by modern medicine and should compel government to run all modern hospitals or nursing homes  whether private and government strictly by MBBS doctors if any AYUSH doctor practising modern medicine or serving in a modern medicine hospital should be immediately arrested and such hospital or nursing homes should be closed,they can practice their pathy in private or work in hospital practicing their pathy only as their status not recognised by public, they change their color and practice openly modern medicines to get name and fame as treatment practically means a treatment mostly by modern medicine and surgery,in surgery there is nothing in AYUSH in present scenario and in Medcines except for few diseases all has been taken by modern medicine but as rudimentary and quackery it is practised in our country so MCI and Ministry should pass orders that MBBS doctors should treat patients only,these other doctors can assist them.

   These biomedical scientist possessing M.Sc Degree who write Doctor after doing phd and make persons fool as patients think they are treating doctors so believe in them but actually they fool patients by doctorate degree by placing doctor prefix before their name .So they should be allowed to work with doctors as assistant and should be never allowed to replace doctors otherwise this MBBS branch will be replaced by these semi educated quacks and gradually students will not like to put so many years of study to be a good doctor but rather will choose these 1-2 years of course and get recognition as doctors.

       MCI,DNB BOARD,STATE and CENTRAL Ministry of Health and IMA should ensure that such regulations aand orders are practised in toto t sabe branch f Modern Medicine or Allopathy.