Nadda said the State Medical Councils (SMCs) are major stakeholders in the development and maintenance of NMR and facilitating the registration process and urged them “for their active participation and to fasten the registration process” as their “efforts of authentication and speed of authentication will be a key factor in the success of NMR.”At the event, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Patel, said, “The need for the NMR has been felt for a very long time. The NMR is important as authentic data on doctors across the country is crucial. The data on doctors to date has been in a scattered form that needs revision, and updation, and the NMR portal will ensure that. The easy registration process will ensure the maintenance of authentic data.” “This authenticity of information holds a lot of value because India wants to create a huge digital health ecosystem and creating the digital registry of doctors will be an important pillar for that,” she said. Union Health Secretary Apurva Chandra said that to date, there was a lack of comprehensive data that could provide a detailed and holistic picture of aspects like the total number of doctors in the country, those who have left the country, those who have lost their license to practice, or the numbers and details of doctors that have lost their lives.“The launch of the NMR will ensure the provision of data of its more than 13 lakh doctors,” he said adding that “the NMR will be a part of the Healthcare Professional Registry under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission and will contain all the details of the medical professionals,” he said.
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