Hyderabad High Court: Submit report on Rural Medical Practitioners, Private Medical Practitioners

The bench asked the government counsel about the steps taken on the issue and whether there was any mechanism to prevent them from practising medicine without requisite qualification.

HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday directed the committee constituted by the Telangana government to submit a comprehensive report regarding all aspects pertaining to RMP (Rural Medical Practitioners) and PMP (Private Medical Practitioners) doctors and that the state government would take a decision in four months by taking the report into consideration.

The bench comprising Chief Justice TBN Radhakrishnan and Justice V Ramasubramanian was passing this order in a PIL filed by Healthcare Reforms Doctors association, represented by its president Dr Mahesh Kumar, seeking directions to prevent RMP and PMP doctors from running clinics in rural and urban areas in Telangana state.

The bench asked the government counsel about the steps taken on the issue and whether there was any mechanism to prevent them from practising medicine without requisite qualification. In reply, special counsel Sanjeev Kumar told the court that the government has constituted a committee by issuing a GO in the year 2015.

Not satisfied with the reply, the bench asked what was the use in issuing the GO when no steps were taken on the issue. The bench then directed the committee concerned to have a comprehensive study and to submit a report.