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West Bengal health department issues new treatment guidelines, puts doctors on notice over compliance

Kolkata, Nov 9 (UNI) West Bengal has issued new treatment guidelines for doctors in the state, with Health Minister Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee saying the protocols will form the benchmark for assessing medical treatment and complaints against practitioners.
Mukherjee said doctors would be expected to follow the state-prescribed guidelines as far as possible and that complaints against practitioners would be examined to determine whether the treatment provided was consistent with the prescribed protocols.
He said the guidelines were intended to bring greater uniformity to medical practice and prevent individual preferences from determining how patients were treated.
The minister also announced that similar guidelines would be framed for AYUSH disciplines, including Ayurveda and Homeopathy, with recruitment and promotion in both AYUSH and modern medicine to be governed by transparent and structured procedures.
“There will be complete transparency in recruitment and promotions, whether it is AYUSH or modern medicine,” Mukherjee said, stressing that professional advancement should not depend on personal preferences or affiliations.
He said Indian treatment guidelines would also be relevant in medico-legal proceedings, alongside international medical protocols. “Medicine is the same everywhere,” Mukherjee said, adding that Indian guidelines would have to be considered when medical decisions were examined within the country's legal framework.
The minister's remarks came amid a wider exercise to verify the credentials of doctors registered in West Bengal.
The state plans to revalidate around 1.1 lakh doctors registered with the West Bengal Medical Council since 1996 under a proposed Know Your Doctor (KYD) system.
The verification will include examination of doctors' qualifications and registration records. Doctors living far from the state or unable to appear physically will be able to undergo video-based verification, while others will be required to complete the process through physical verification.
The exercise is also expected to identify registrations relating to doctors who have died, moved abroad or are no longer practising. Mukherjee said the formal process would begin after the government issues the necessary notification and detailed guidelines.
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