Faced with mounting allegations against MCI, the council’s president Dr Jayshree Mehta defends the council, saying the body was not ‘given a reasonable opportunity’ to present their side of the story.

Some of the things she said in this regard are:

• The negative attention which fell on the council is unfair. Though time was sought from the parliamentary committee, the MCI wasn’t given it.
• MCI was even denied the mandatory opportunity of hearing as guaranteed by principles of natural justice
• The NITI Aayog’s decision to replace MCI with National Medical Commission is a “remedy more dangerous than the disease.”
• Even though the Delhi High Court appointed in 2001 a full time administrator for supervising the MCI’s functioning for an year, they couldn’t bring even a “single event pertaining to the functioning of the Council.”
• Also, an ad hoc committe was formed later to examine all MCI’s decisions between 1996 and 2001. So, the MCI has been under scrutiny from 1996-2001 and 2002-2009 and nothing was found.

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