Mumbai July 07, 2020 : Institute of Medicine & Law (IML) conducted the 5th National Convention on Medicine & Law on July 05, 2020. This event is an influential and foremost meeting that discusses and deliberates on changes needed in laws relating to healthcare in India.

Session 1 was on Organ Transplant in India Legal Issues and Solutions, and a few prominent problems, issues, and recommendations discussed various issues like - low allocation in the state's budget for health, fear psychosis among doctors, definitions of death in Indian law, coordination between public and private hospitals, need for more hospitals as organ retrieval centres, procedures governing declaration of brain-stem death, etc,

Session 2 was on Legal & Regulatory Framework for Tele-Health The Way Forward and a few prominent problems, issues, and recommendations discussed the need for comprehensive and overarching legislation, apprehensions in minds of doctor and patients, security of data, confidentiality, privacy, commercialization of medicine, acceptance of telemedicine by medical insurance providers & indemnity providers to doctors and hospitals, problem of patients calling at odd hours, not paying fees, data charges of platforms, patients outside India, friendly advice, informal chats, adverse event reporting, bad audio / video, managing data, cyber security, different types of consultations, and so on needs to be clarified.

Dr. T N Ravishankar, ex-President, IMA Tamil Nadu was the convenor of the first session, whereas Dr. Dilip Walke, ex-President, Medico-Legal cell, FOGSI was convenor of the second session. Dr. Parag Rindani, CEO Wokhardt Hospital, Mumbai Central was the moderator of both the sessions.

Dr. Bhagwat Karad, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and himself a paediatric surgeon noted that the convention has involved everybody, viz. doctors, experts in law, patient group, and representation from other countries also.

A doctor has done his job till such time as he has given a reasonable standard of care. As a judge whenever a case would come to me, the scales of justice would always shift in favour of the doctor said Justice Sunil Ambwani, Former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, and also the Chairperson of the e-committee, Supreme Court of India.

The nation today needs a central law on uniform determination of death, even the WHO has recommended, and many countries are following this was one of the key recommendations that was proposed by Mahendrakumar Bajpai, Advocate Supreme Court.

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