GoI recently notified National Medical Commission Registered Medical Practitioner (Professional Conduct) Regulations, 2023 replacing Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations 2002. Here are the key provisions that doctors should be aware of: Self-employed RMP shall display the unique registration ID assigned by EMRB in prescription, certificate, and money receipts given to patients.

Employed RMP shall get a seal made by the employer
for displaying the unique registration number below the RMP’s signatures.

Policy makers in India should read @nytimes article highlighting how a profit-oriented private health syst in US failed to respond to public health crisis.@NITIAayog's plan to privatize health system is unwise
@PMOIndia @drharshvardhan @amitabhk87 #COVID19 nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opi… "Early on, New York’s elite hospitals — staring down a crisis themselves — did not jump in to set up outpatient testing centers. That task was left largely to the public hospitals....The elite hospitals also generally did not share precious protective gear with those harder hit"

I am starting this thread of publicly available reports of healthcare workers in India getting infected with #COVID19 and/or hospital services in India getting adversely impacted due to COVID-19. Chandigarh: Two nurses, private doctor test positive #Covid19 #Covid19India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigar…