Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Illegal Trading of Human Organs


The Ministry has introduced the National Commission for Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) Bill in the RajyaSabha for setting up of NCHRH which inter-alia envisages updation of professional knowledge and skill of medical professionals by making it mandatory for them to attend seminars, conferences, workshops or any other programme of minimum standard for re-registration in a periodic manner. However, as per information provided by Medical Council of India, periodical re-registration is already being done by the State Medical Councils of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim and Uttarakhand have provisions for periodical re-registration of medical practitioners.

Health being a State subject, such information is not maintained centrally. However, in order to curb such practice, the Central Government has made the penal provisions and punishments in the Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act, 2011 more stringent.

As regards unethical clinical trials, the MCI has informed that complaint received by the Council regarding such trials is under process, awaiting the final investigation report from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).

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