Are Indian-origin Doctors suspended from practicing by a Foreign Country, forbidden from practicing in India too?

Are Indian-origin Doctors suspended from practicing by a Foreign Country, forbidden from practicing in India too?

New Delhi, May 11, 2017: The Delhi high court on Tuesday inquired to know if Indian-origin doctors which are suspended from practicing by a foreign country, can be forbidden from treating patients in India.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice V K Rao raised the doubt while taking note of a news report that an Indian-origin doctor, barred from practising by a US court is now treating patients in the National Capital Region (NCR).

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The court recorded that the report had declared that mechanisms administering medical practice in India were ill-equipped to identify such cases which permitted such doctors to practice in India. It designated the member secretary of Delhi State Legal Services Authority, Sanjeev Jain, to verify the name and address of this doctor, carry out an immediate scrutiny and file a report within four days, mentioned TNN report.

Besides this, the court also issued a notice to the Medical Council of India asking it to file a report on the mechanism, the statutory regime as well as rules and regulations in place to examine and curb down such practices.
The bench further sought the acknowledgement of the ministry of health and family welfare before the next date of hearing on May 15.

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As per the report the doctor had pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery and was asked to resign all US medical licences, evict the country and "not practice medicine in any form within the United States or any other country," the court noted in its order.
Though, he continues to run a clinic each in Delhi and Gurgaon.

– prepared by Naina Mishra of Newsgram, Twitter: Nainamishr94

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