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J&K Medical Council reconstituted

As per a notification of J&K Health and Medical Education Department, Dr Shahzada Muhammad Saleem Khan, Professor, Community Medicine, GMC Srinagar, will be the President of the Council
01:30 AM Oct 13, 2024 IST | GK NEWS SERVICE
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Jammu, Oct 12: The J&K government Saturday reconstituted the Jammu and Kashmir Medical Council (JKMC), while notifying the names of six officers, replacing the earlier four-member Council, constituted in 2021.

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As per a notification of J&K Health and Medical Education Department, Dr Shahzada Muhammad Saleem Khan, Professor, Community Medicine, GMC Srinagar, will be the President of the Council.

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Dr Vishal R Tandon, Professor Pharmacology, GMC Jammu; Dr Mehnaaz Sultan Khuroo, Professor Pathology, GMC Srinagar; Dr Sandeep Dogra, Professor Microbiology, GMC Jammu; Dr Asifa Nazir, Associate Professor, Microbiology, GMC Srinagar and Dr Jyoti Jolly, Chief Medical Officer (In-Charge Divisional Nutrition Officer, Jammu) will be its members.

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“In exercise of powers conferred by Section 98 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 and in partial modification of notification S O 362 of 2021 dated October 20, 2021, the Lieutenant Governor hereby directs that the table appended to the said notification shall be substituted by these officers,” read a notification, issued by Secretary J&K Health and Medical Education Department, Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah.

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The J&K Government, vide Notification S O 362 of 2021 dated October 20, 2021, had notified the names of four officers, “competent to discharge the functions of the Jammu and Kashmir Medical Council, in terms of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 (Act No 30 of 2019), for regulating the practice and registration of practitioners of medicine in J&K, till any law is established is enacted in this behalf in J&K.”

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