New Delhi: The National Medical Commission (NMC), in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI), for development and regulation of all aspects of Medical Education and Profession, has been constituted and came into existence from yesterday, a gazette notification said. With NMC coming into being, the Board of Governors (BoG), which superseded the MCI on Sept. 26, 2018, to perform its functions, will get dissolved and the nearly 64-year-old Indian Medical Council Act will stand abolished.
The former head of Delhi All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) ENT Department, Dr. Suresh Chandra Sharma has been appointed Chairman for a period of three years with effect from Sept. 25 while Rakesh Kumar Vats, the Secretary-General in the Board of Governors of the MCI, presently, would be the Secretary of the Commission.
