Dr Rughwani, first from city to become V-P of MMC
| Date :10-Nov-2019 |
Staff Reporter :
Dr Vinky Rughwani has been unanimously elected as Vice-President (V-P) of Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC). He is the first person from Nagpur to become Vice-President of the state body. Earlier, Nagpur’s late Dr Kishor Taori was the Chairman of the council. Government of Maharashtra had nominated Dr Vinky Rughwani on Maharashtra Medical Council in 2017.
The council has the responsibilities to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners; and to suspend or remove him from the register. He is the Governing Board member from Vidarbha on the State Blood Transfusion Council Maharashtra State. He is Member of Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council. He is also a Member of District Health Coordination Committee. Dr Rughwani is an eminent Paediatrician of the city and is Director of Rughwani Child Care Centre and Hospital, Nagpur. Dr Rughwani has founded Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Centre Nagpur.
The centre provides free treatment to the patients of Thalassemia and Sickle Cell disease and free blood transfusion to such patients. Dr Rughwani is also Chairman of Sindhi Hindi Vidya Samiti which runs about 26 institutions and imparts education to about 20,000 students. Dr Rughwani has said that he would work in the best possible way to solve the problems of medical fraternity through Maharashtra Medical Council.