The common specter of patients waiting for doctors in associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) could be thing of past with Medical Council of India (MCI) deciding to install biometric attendance system in the hospital and medical college.
Apart from giving relief to the patients the biometric system would curb the practice of ghost faculties in the medical colleges. The Aadhar details of all the doctors, staff members would be collected and uploaded in a central server. This would ensure that one faculty member is enrolled in only one institute at a time. The apex body of the medical education, the MCI would send a team to the GDMC on April 11 and 12 to collect the data of the staff members. This team would collect Aadhar and other details. The Principal of the GDMC, Dr Pradeep Bharati Gupta told The Pioneer that the MCI has proposed to install five biometric machines in the hospital. In the associated hospital three machines would be installed while in the Patel Nagar campus two machines would be put up. These machines are expected to be installed within two months.
He informed that bio-metric machines are being installed under the Digital mission programme -II of the MCI.
The installation of these machines in the associated hospital of the medical colleges would ensure timely arrival and departure of the doctors. It is a normally observed phenomenon that the many doctors are late in arriving for their OPD and other duties due to which patients suffer.
It is also believed that the step of introducing a centralized Aadhar linked bio metric attendance system would provide a deadly blow to the system of Ghost faculty prevalent in the medical education of the country and could be immensely beneficial for the students.
A ghost faculty is a fictitious faculty which a college claims to be its faculty member but in actual practice such faculties exist only on paper and these ghosts make a brief appearance when there is a MCI team visiting the college. The system of Ghost faculty is beneficial proposition for both the college and the doctors as the former don’t have to appoint high paying permanent members of faculty and the later getting some monitory benefit in lieu of putting their name on the attendance register of a college.