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To maintain a live register,and to provide for the registration of
medical practitioners. |
To hear and decide appeals against any decision of the
Registrar. |
To prescribe a Code of ethics for regulating the professional
Conduct of practitioners. |
To reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or remove his name
from the register, or to take such other disciplinary action against
him as may, in the opinion of the Council be necessary or
expedient. |
To receive complaints from public (including patients and their
relatives) against misconduct or negligence by a medical
practitioner, to procced for inquest, take a decision on the merits
of the case and to initiate disciplinary action or award
compensation and similarly to take action against frivolous
complaints. |
To provide protection to its members in discharging professional
duties |
To ensure that no unqualified person practices the modern
system of medicine. |
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