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BATHINDA: The future of students of the Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (AIMSR), Bathinda, is at stake after the Medical Council of India (MCI) derecognised 150 seats of the MBBS course.

Fate of students hangs in balance

A view of Adesh University in Bathinda. Tribune Photo



Bharat Khanna

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 12

The future of students of the Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (AIMSR), Bathinda, is at stake after the Medical Council of India (MCI) derecognised 150 seats of the MBBS course. The MCI found many deficiencies during its inspection in May this year.

The MCI found that the deficiency of faculty was 27.6 per cent, shortage of residents was 32.94 per cent and bed occupancy was 19.69 per cent. The MCI also found that the TB ward, chest and skin ward and VD wards were locked. There was no patient admitted to the ophthalmology ward.

The pantry, store and examination-cum-treatment room were not functional in many wards while male patients were found to have been admitted to female wards in the psychiatry section.

Similarly, there was only one case of normal delivery and one of caesarean section on the day of assessment.

The clinical records such as OPD attendance and bed occupancy provided by the institute appeared to be inflated. In ICUs, there were only seven beds for the combined MICU and SICU against the requirement of 10.

There were also no patients in PICU/NICU. The dissection tables were lying in the gallery of the anatomy department. The dissection hall was not functional.

In RHTC, the cold chain equipment was inadequate. Besides, it pointed out a number of other deficiencies.

The executive committee of the MCI decided not to recommend continuance of recognition of the MBBS degree. It further decided to apply clause 8(3)(1)(c) of the Establishment of Medical College Regulation (Amendment), 2010, under which the colleges (already recognised for award of the MBBS degree and/or running postgraduate courses) are observed with the deficiency of more than 10 per cent of teaching faculty and residents and/or bed occupancy is below 70 per cent, the compliance of rectification of deficiency from such an institute will not be considered for the issue of renewal of permission in that academic year.

Such institute will not be considered for the processing of applications for postgraduate courses in that academic year and will be issued show-cause notices as to why the recommendation for the withdrawal of recognition of the courses run by that institute should not be made for undergraduate and postgraduate courses which are recognised under section 11(2) of the IMC Act,1956, along with the direction of stoppage of admissions in permitted postgraduate courses.

The MCI also decided ‘not to consider’ such an institute for processing applications for the postgraduate courses in the academic year 2017-18.

However, the MCI asked the institute to submit the compliance of rectification of the above deficiencies within a month.

Sources revealed that the inspection report was intentionally not uploaded on the website of the MCI before the completion of the admission process for MBBS seats in AIMSR, under Adesh University, that is a private university. The report was supposed to be uploaded in June this year. Instead, it was uploaded in November this year while the admission for MBBS seats was done in August–September this year.

Earlier in the inspection carried out in March, the subcommittee of the MCI’s executive committee reported that the AIMSR had neither provided important details to the MCI about the ‘consensual agreement’ between the AIMSR and the state government for seat sharing nor had it submitted any details of students admitted, including their names, the marks they obtained in Class XII and the entrance examination.

The report then marked, “If the names of admitted students, marks obtained in Class XII and the entrance examinations were not provided, how was the list processed by the section? Why were these facts omitted in original remarks? The section should place these details before the sub-committee for the consideration and re-submission of the item in the next EC meeting,” adds the MCI report.

AIMSR is only private institute in the state which doesn’t have government quota seats. Otherwise, five other private medical colleges in Punjab have a consensual agreement under which there are 50 per cent ‘government quota’ seats for which Rs 13.43 lakh is charged for the entire five year course as fee. Adesh, on other hand, offered 15 per cent NRI quota seats, while for the rest of the 85 per cent, they are charging a fee of Rs 40.3 lakh per student for the MBBS course.

Dr CV Bhirmanandham, vice-president, MCI executive committee and Dr GB Gupta, a member of the executive committee, refused to comment, maintaining they are not authorised and instead MCI secretary should be contacted.

Dr Reena Nayyar, secretary, MCI, could not be contacted despite repeated attempts. Dr Radha Madhab Tripathy said he would look into the matter.

Dr Harkiran Kaur, principal, AIMSR, Bathinda, said, “We have filed the compliance report in November this year. The deficiencies were minute and we have covered them. More ‘faculty’ has been recruited while other deficiencies have also been covered.”

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