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To maintain a live register and to provide for the registration of medical practitioners |
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To hear and decide appeals against any decision of the Registrar. |
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To prescribe a Code of ethics for regulating the professional Conduct of practitioners. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To provide protection to its members in discharging professional duties |
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To ensure that no unqualified person practices the modern system of medicine. |