A national healthcare professionals registry (HPR) will be started so that patients can verify the antecedents of the doctors
Worried about the growing practice of unqualified doctors/quacks, the government has chalked out a plan to hunt them out and put a stop to their practice. A national healthcare professionals registry (HPR) will be started so that patients can verify the antecedents of the doctors.
PTI reported that the national register — one of three proposed — will have a robust mechanism of verification of healthcare professionals on it from all systems of medicines, including nurses and paramedics.
According to the Indian Medical Association, there are around a million quacks practising medicine, with 600,000 offering allopathic treatments and the rest practising traditional systems such as Ayurveda, Sidha, Tibb and Unani.
According to officials involved in the formation of the registries, the processes have been designed to ensure that only professionals approved by authorised statutory bodies are onboarded.
The National Medical Commission (NMC), Dental Council of India (DCI), National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and National Commission for Homeopathy (NCH) are some of the bodies overseeing enrolment along with various state authorities
“The Healthcare Professionals Registry shall act as a single source of truth for all healthcare professionals in the ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) ecosystem,” CEO of the National Health Authority, Dr R S Sharma, said in an interview.
“The healthcare professionals applying for enrolment under HPR are required to submit their registration certificate, degree/diploma and proof of employment (in case of government employees). After submission, this information will be verified by the respective council/governing body under which the healthcare professionals are registered. Subsequent to a successful validation of the information, the account will be activated,” Sharma said.
The National Medical Commission (NMC), Dental Council of India (DCI), National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and National Commission for Homeopathy (NCH) are some of the bodies overseeing enrolment along with various state authorities.
The HPR currently has about 15,000 professionals, of which 15.5% are from the private sector.
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