MCI turns down Adesh institute request to start four new courses

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, April 17

After finding a number of deficiencies, the MCI has finally disapproved of the request of Adesh Institute of Medical Science and Research, Bathinda, to start four new PG courses, including MS orthopaedics, MD (radio-diagnosis), MD (anaesthesia) and MS (ENT).

Earlier, the MCI had recommended the disapproval to the Central government.

The decision has been taken after a meeting was held between the MCI members of the Postgraduate Medical Education (PME) Committee in the last week of January this year and the report of it was uploaded on the MCI website recently.

As per the inspections done at Adesh College and Hospital, Bathinda, the PME Committee found that the operation theatre (OT) list in gynaecology showed five patients but there was no patient in the OT. However, only one patient, Jaswinder, was lying in the preoperative ward whose name was not in the list.

On enquiring about OG surgeries done on the previous day, emergency and elective surgery registers showed 3 patients – Satwant, Harpreet and Amarjeet — but none of them could be located in the postoperative or in gynaecology or obstetrics ward.

Basant Kaur was stated to be post hysterectomy patient but she was healthy and apparently no surgery was conducted on her. Only simple dressing was done on her lower abdomen. The PME Committee had referred the matter to the ethics section of the MCI.

The bed occupancy in the OG (obstetrics and gynaecology) section was 40 per cent, in surgery section, including urology and neurosurgery, it was 40-50 per cent and in orthopaedics, it was 40 to 50 per cent.

Many patients who shown operated in the list of January 14 were also named in the list of operated patients of January 15.

About 10 units of blood were shown to be issued on January 15 this year, all to ICU patients, including 4 units to Mewa Singh, 3 units to Kashmiri Lal, 2 units to Teja Singh, but none of them seemed to have got blood transfusion.

Normal and caesarean deliveries were nil till 4 pm. On the day of assessment, no patient was admitted to PICU/NICU. The promotions of Dr Vivek Mittal, Dr Mohammed Tauquir Zeya and Dr Upinder Kaur were suspected by the MCI to have been done against regulations.

Similarly, in MS orthopaedics, the PME Committee, after considering the compliance verification assessment report, noted that there was only 30 per cent bed occupancy while there were only two major operations on the day of assessment.

The report mentioned that Dr Kulbhushan Gupta, professor in Unit 2, presented himself at 2 pm on the day of assessment and hence couldn’t be considered.

Similarly, Dr AS Sidhu, professor in Unit 1, was absent and resultantly there was no professor in the department while Dr BS Dhaliwal, senior resident in Unit I had not signed the faculty table on the day of assessment.

It was found that Unit 3 had only two faculty members and hence, it couldn’t be considered as a PG unit.

It further mentioned that the promotion of associate professor Nitin Bansal was not as per the regulations as he had been an assistant professor for four years against the requirement of five years. It mentioned that there had been no full reference (no author name) of two publications that were cited.

More interestingly, the MCI found that the college got the letter of permission (LOP) in July, 2006, but Dr Rajender Kumar, associate professor, was given experience from July 11, 2005, which is not permissible.

The MCI also found that promotions of Dr Rajendra, who had been an assistant professor for four years and seven months against the requirement of five years and of Dr Parminder Singh Kolar, associate professor, Unit-3, promoted after 4.4 years against 5 years required experience, were against regulations.

For MD (radio-diagnosis), it recommended disapproval and MS (ENT) course, it found that two assistant professors didn’t know who was the head of the department. 

In view of the above, the postgraduate medical education committee decided to return the application to the Central Government recommending disapproval of the scheme for starting these courses at Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, under Section 10A of the IMC Act, 1956, for the academic year 2016-17. Vice-Chancellor of Adesh University, Dr GPI Singh, didn’t answer any queries on the issue.