Ketan Desai

At a special meeting held on Sunday, the Gujarat University senate nominated Dr Ketan Desai, former president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and head of urology department, BJ Medical College, as the university's representative member to the MCI.

The arrest of MCI chief Ketan Desai on Friday and subsequent investigations has firmly established that the body which regulates medical education in the country is, as a court described it once, a den of corruption.

Ketan Desai, the MCI chief who was arrested on graft charges on Thursday, might stand to lose a lot after being was remanded to CBI custody for five days.

Disgraced Medical Council of India president Ketan Desai, who is facing graft charges, has resigned as head of the autonomous body.

Medical Council of India president Dr Ketan Desai was arrested by the CBI for allegedly accepting Rs two crore as bribe to grant recognition to a medical college in Punjab.

The Medical Council of India has suspended the licence of its tainted former chief Ketan Desai to practice medicine besides approaching the World Medical Association, asking them not to hand over its presidentship to him.

The CBI has registered a disproportionate assets case against former MCI chief Ketan Desai who had been arrested earlier while allegedly taking Rs 2 crore from a medical college for granting it recognition.

The Gujarat high court on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on two petitioners for filing frivolous PILs opposing former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai 's election to the Gujarat University senate.

Gujarat's minister for higher and technical education Vasu Trivedi was in a fix during a function at the Gujarat University on Saturday.

The arrest of MCI chief Ketan Desai on Friday and subsequent investigations have firmly established that the body which regulates medical education in the country is, as a court described it once, a den of corruption.

The Gujarat University (GU) on Tuesday notified appointment of 85 of the 86 members of the newly-elected senate.

PBT has filed the appeal against the Gujarat Medical Council (GMC) for its refusal to cancel Desai's medial registration after he was arrested on charges of corruption.

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has expressed its displeasure over tainted MCI ex-president Dr Ketan Desai winning the election to the Gujarat University (GU) senate.

Dr Ketan Desai, former president of Medical Council of India, has been elected unopposed the president of World Medical Association at the general body meet held recently in Brazil.

Despite all the protests and controversies, the name of Dr Ketan Desai is expected to figure in the notification of the Gujarat University (GU) senate members elected in the recently held elections to be declared on Tuesday.

Tainted former chief of the Medical Council of India (MCI), Dr Ketan Desai, who was arrested on charges of graft, will contest senate elections of the Gujarat University (GU).

The CBI on Thursday registered a disproportionate assets case against Ketan Desai, the former chief of the now dissolved Medical Council of India who has been arrested on corruption charges, and his family members.

Medical Council of India president Ketan Desai, arrested on graft charge, has been suspended from the post of head of department of urology at a government-run medical college here, a senior official said on Sunday.

A Delhi court on Saturday remanded MCI president Ketan Desai and three others in judicial custody after their arrest for allegedly taking a bribe to grant licence to a medical college in Punjab.

Dr Ketan Desai, president of Medical Council of India (MCI) who was arrested by CBI for allegedly taking a Rs 2 crore bribe, had become the health ministry's latest poster boy.

The College of Ayurvedic Medicine and Hospital and Shrimati Dhariya Prabhadevi Sojatia Ayurved Medical College in Gwalior and Mandsaur, respectively, are in the dock.

The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has requested the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to reconsider Ketan Desai's role as chief patron amid concerns about electoral integrity and alleged corruption. Desai, previously arrested in 2010 for accepting a bribe, was elected president of World Medical Association in 2016 after all charges were withdrawn.

He has had a vice-like grip over the Medical Council of India (MCI) for almost 20 years now.

Authorities of many medical colleges have cried foul at the Medical Council of India (MCI) not granting them permission for admissions from this academic year, and alleged discrimination on the grounds of former MCI president Ketan Desai belonging to Gujarat.

The Medical Council of India is a picture of irony: It now has a member whose medical practitioner’s licence it suspended two years ago.

Desai claims the racism of a western lobby of doctors is trying to prevent him from becoming the president of the World Medical Association, but facts belie his claims of racism.

Those petitioners, who have filed PILs against former chief of Medical Council of India Ketan Desai's inclusion in the Gujarat University's senate, are now faced with a problem.

The status of the suspension of the medical licence of Dr Ketan Desai, former president of the Medical Council of India, remains a mystery with the current dispensation in the council refusing to answer queries on the subject.