Here are the top health news for the day:NMC removes Stipend from medical colleges ranking CriteriaFinancial entitlements, such as stipends paid to interns and resident doctors, are no longer a criterion for a medical institute’s accreditation and rating.Even though payment of financial entitlements such as stipends to interns and resident doctors used to be a parameter under the criterion of students’ admission, attainment of competence and placement status in the draft framework that NMC prepared for accreditation and rating of medical institutes in partnership with the Quality Control of India (QCI), it has now been dropped by the Apex Medical Commission in the recently released Draft Framework for Accreditation, ranking of medical colleges.For more information, click on the link below:NMC Drops Stipend from medical colleges ranking Criteria, here’s what else is missingPatna HC Relief to Doctors Who Failed in MBBS exams Over 3 Times, Permits Assistant Professor ApplicationsProviding interim relief to the doctors, who failed more than three times in the MBBS examination, the Patna High Court has given them provisional permission to apply for the posts of Assistant Professors in medical colleges.This order was granted by the division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar while considering the plea filed by a doctor, who argued that the advertisement issued by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) barred such candidates who have failed more than three times during their MBBS studies to be ineligible for the post of Assistant Professor.For more information, click on the link below:Patna HC Relief to Doctors Who Failed in MBBS exams Over 3 Times, Allows Assistant Professor ApplicationsNursing Institute Inspections must be done by Councils only: Karnataka HCThe Karnataka High Court has ruled that the responsibility for inspecting nursing institutes lies with designated regulatory bodies such as the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Indian Nursing Council (INC), and Karnataka Nursing Council (KNC), and not with district deputy commissioners.This judgment overrides a directive from the state government, which instructed all deputy commissioners to carry out inspections of nursing institutions within their jurisdictions based on directions from the medical education minister.For more information, click on the link below:Nursing Institute Inspections must be done by Councils only: Karnataka HCNo Postponement of AIIMS INI CET July 2025 yet, Doctors Urge PM’s InterventionDespite repeated pleas from the aspirants and other members of the medical fraternity, there is no announcement on the postponement of AIIMS INICET July 2025 examination, scheduled for May 17, 2025. However, doctors remain persistent in their demand for a deferment, now calling for direct intervention from the Prime Minister’s Office.Pointing out that schools and colleges in Jammu, Rajouri, Poonch, and Samba will remain closed, medical education activist and the National Spokesperson of Indian Medical Association Junior Doctors’ Network (IMA-JDN) Dr. Dhruv Chauhan wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “But @aiims_newdelhi will conduct exam in these areas on 17th May If anything happens to any student during this exam this will be absolutely failure of @JPNaddaHe failed to to do his role as a health minister !”For more information, click on the link below:AIIMS INI CET July 2025: No Postponement yet, Doctors Urge PM to Step In