The Centre on Friday reconstituted the Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India. The term of the existing Board ends on Saturday.
The new Board will be chaired by K.K. Talwar, former Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. The other members nominated are K.S. Sharma, head of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai; Harbhajan Singh Rassam, Director, Clinical Cardiac Sciences, and senior interventional cardiologist, Max Heart and Vascular Institute, Delhi; Rajiv Chintaman Yeravdekar, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune; and Purushottam Lal, Director, Interventional Cardiology, and chairman, Metro Group of Hospitals.
The reconstitution follows the promulgation of an ordinance extending the term of the board, since the supersession of the MCI, by another year.
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