Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 19: High Court today directed the Health and Medical Education Department to aware the public about the procedure for making complaint against the doctors overcharging the patients.
The direction to the Health Department has followed after its counsel M I Dar (AAG) submitted before the Division Bench that till date no complaint has been received against any doctor for overcharging.
The Medical Counsel of India counsel Moksha Kazmi informed the court that there are some procedures laid down in the MCI regulations about lodging the complaint on overcharging.
“The only thing which is required to be done is that in case any complaint is received the public should be made aware that the procedure for making the complaint is prescribed in the regulations”, Division Bench of Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmad and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey directed.
Court had sought an affidavit from the Health & Medical Education Department indicating therein as to whether any complaint has been received against doctors for overcharging their patients and action taken in this connection.
Today H&ME Department’s counsel informed the court that the order of July 25 has been complied with and as per the details, from all the sources referred in the affidavit, court said, it is evident that no complaint has been received viz-a-viz the doctors who have been overcharging the patients.
Hearing a suo-moto case on media reports about medical corruption in the State, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmad and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey directed the Health and Medical Education Department to do the exercise and inform the court by next date.
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