4th National Convention on Medicine & Law 2019 took place at Chennai

This convention was attended by the doctors, policy makers, and legal experts from across India and chaired by Justice (Dr.) B C Gupta . CHENNAI,OCT 2019: Institute of Medicine & Law (IML) organized the 4 th National Convention on Medicine & Law (NCML) 2019 on Sunday, 20 th October at Chennai. The previous editions of the convention were held in Mumbai & Delhi. The Convener of this edition, Dr. T N Ravisankar informed that “The convention addressed the concerns of the medical fraternity on some pressing legal issues affecting Healthcare Practitioners. Some of these include setting up of a Medical Tribunal to avoid doctors and hospitals being sued in multiple forums simultaneously, relooking at the draconian Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, and abrogating the Sensitivity Tests for Antibiotics, which is medically obsolete but legally mandatory. Some of these laws are archaic or need to be amended to keep in tune with the ti...