In a big reprieve to the upcoming Doon Medical College (DMC), the Medical Council of India (MCI) has granted one month’s time to the college authorities to get their act together on the lacunae pointed out by it.
The Principal of the DMC, Dr Pradeep Bharati Gupta said in a letter dated January 31 that the MCI has granted time compliance verification. “This gives us an extra opportunity to complete the deficiencies noted by Medical Council of India and another opportunity to open the gates of medical education in Dehradun in the Government sector.
MCI has pointed out certain deficiencies in the faculty, hospital and some equipment. For this a meeting has been called by the Principal Secretary, Om Prakash to formulate plan of action to complete the deficiencies”, the Principal said. He added that the letter of the MCI augers well for the DMC.
The DMC has reason to celebrate as the experts pointed out that the tenor of letter indicates that the college is on right track for the all important nod of MCI.
It is learnt that in the letter the MCI has indicated some deficiencies in the department of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry. The apex body of medical education was also not satisfied with the laboratory facility and other equipments and indicated it in the letter. One of a senior official of DMC said that the deficiencies pointed out by the MCI like shortage of faculty and equipment have already been taken care of.
At the time of MCI visit last month the college had only 50 faculty members on its roll which now have increased to 80 similarly at that time the Doon hospital and Doon women hospital was not transferred to the Medical College which is now done.
At the end of one month time period given by the MCI, the DMC would send a letter to MCI mentioning the measures it has taken to rectify the deficiencies pointed out. Based on the reply of the DMC the MCI would decide on next inspection for granting of permission to the college.
A three member team of MCI team which consisted of Dr R K Maheshwari of Swai Man Singh (SMS) Medical College Jaipur, Dr S Vishwanathan of Stanley Medical College, Chennai and Dr Vinay Agarwal of Meerut Medical College inspected the facilities at DMC on January 05 and 06.
The DMC is coming up different locations of the city. The erstwhile Doon hospital and Doon women hospital are now part of DMC. A multi story Out Patient Department (OPD) of the Medical College is being constructed near Tehsil Chowk in the city. The administrative and academic buildings of the college are constructed at Dehra Khas area located in Patel Nagar.