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Maharashtra Medical Council issues warning to five docs for advertising

Maharashtra Medical Council issues warning to five docs for advertising

Written by Admin |Updated : July 9, 2013 12:51 PM IST

The Maharashtra Medical Council issued a warning to five doctors for advertising their practices which is illegal under the code of medical ethics of the Medical Council of India. A council member told TOI that these doctors issued advertisements claiming to cure infertility, diabetes, obesity and other conditions. One of them Dr Amarnath Upadhye operates on Mumbai, while others travel here to consult patients. The others are Dr Anil Patil, Dr Lohiya Bhagwandas, Dr Umesh Mundada and Dr Shaukat Kazi.

The MMC issued these doctors a warning on Saturday and issued the warning to the docs and asked them to submitting an unconditional apology for violating MCI's code of medical ethics and the Magical Remedies Act and have been warned that their licences can be suspended if they advertise again. The MCI has pretty stringent rules against advertising which bans docs from soliciting patients and doesn't even allow them to print photos on letterheads and use elaborate signboards. While these laws are only for docs, the MMC also plans to crackdown on hospitals that heavily advertise about consultants.

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The Code of Medical Ethics of the Medical Council of India - Section 6.1 says:

'Soliciting of patients directly or indirectly, by a physician, by a group of physicians or by institutions or organisations is unethical. A physician shall not make use of him / her as subject of any form or manner of advertising or publicity through any mode either alone or in conjunction with others which is of such a character as to invite attention to him or to his professional position, skill, qualification, achievements, attainments, specialities, appointments, associations, affiliations or honours and/or of such character as would ordinarily result in his self-aggrandizement. A physician shall not give to any person, whether for compensation or otherwise, any approval, recommendation, endorsement, certificate, report or statement with respect of any drug, medicine, nostrum remedy, surgical, or therapeutic article, apparatus or appliance or any commercial product or article with respect of any property, quality or use thereof or any test, demonstration or trial thereof, for use in connection with his name, signature, or photograph in any form or manner of advertising through any mode nor shall he boast of cases, operations, cures or remedies or permit the publication of report thereof through any mode.'