Sunday 17 April 2016

No relief to Colaba IVF clinic doctors

No relief to Colaba IVF clinic doctors

The Bombay High Court has refused to grant interim relief to doctor couple running an IVF clinic at Colaba, whose licenses were suspended for three months following complaints that they made promises of guaranteed pregnancy on their clinic website and even offered refund if the treatment failed, reports DNA.

A division bench of justices SC Dharmadhikari and GS Kulkarni also orally warned the Maharashtra Medical Council from making any statements to the media with regards to the case as the matter was subjudiced.

The court has posted the matter on April 29.
The council suspended the license of Dr Aniruddha Malpani and Dr Anjali Malpani on the complaint by Advertising Standards Council of India, in 2014.

Though the Malpanis removed the offer — which guaranteed pregnancy in four IVF cycles and a full refund if the treatment failed — from their website in December 2014, the medical council continued its probe.


Relevant laws: MCI Ethics Regulations
6.1 Advertising:

6.1.1 Soliciting of patients directly or indirectly, by a physician, by a group of physicians or by institutions or organisations is unethical. A physician shall not make use of him / her (or his / her name) as subject of any form or manner of advertising or publicity through any mode either alone or in conjunction with others which is of such a character as to invite attention to him or to his professional position, skill, qualification, achievements, attainments, specialities, appointments, associations, affiliations or honours and/or of such character as would ordinarily result in his self-aggrandizement. A physician shall not give to any person, whether for compensation or otherwise, any approval, recommendation, endorsement, certificate, report or statement with respect of any drug, medicine, nostrum remedy, surgical, or therapeutic article, apparatus or appliance or any commercial product or article with respect of any property, quality or use thereof or any test, demonstration or trial thereof, for use in connection with his name, signature, or photograph in any form or manner of advertising through any mode nor shall he boast of cases, operations, cures or remedies or permit the publication of report thereof through any mode……………


1.8 Payment of Professional Services: The physician, engaged in the practice of medicine shall give priority to the interests of patients. The personal financial interests of a physician should not conflict with the medical interests of patients. A physician should announce his fees before rendering service and not after the operation or treatment is under way. Remuneration received for such services should be in the form and amount specifically announced to the patient at the time the service is rendered. It is unethical to enter into a contract of "no cure no payment". Physician rendering service on behalf of the state shall refrain from anticipating or accepting any consideration.

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