Students pursuing graduate and postgraduate courses at the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Jolly Grant, are worried as the Medical Council of India (MCI) has threatened to derecognise the medical college.
A team of the MCI assessors inspected the medical college and its associated hospital facility in December 2014 and found many discrepancies.
The major problems listed by the MCI are 30.71 per cent shortage of residents, low flow of patients in the OPD and IPD.
During the days of assessment the team found that no special investigations, like Barium and IVP, were done. Also, the absence of lecture Theater, less space for library, only 25 internet nodes in the library against mandatory 40 irked the team.
The MCI team observed that the plaster cutting room, dressing room and minor Operation Theater were in one room with no facility of oxygen, instruments and
sterilisation.
The team found the wards of the hospital overcrowded and unhygienic.
The assessment report of the executive committee of the council listed many shortcomings under 14 heads and decided to recommend to the Government not to renew the permission for admission of III batch of MBBS students.
A show-cause notice was issued to the college, asking that why the recommendations for withdrawal of the recognition of the courses run by the institute should not be made.
Some students of the PG and graduate course alleged that the college fee is
highest among the medical colleges of the country and college is not giving seats in PG courses under Government quota.
These students claimed that they even brought their grievances before the MCI and they were assured of necessary actions. The students are apprehensive about their future also.
When contacted the Chief Trustee of the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT), Vijay Dhasmana claimed the students should not be worried.
He said MCI made its recommendations to the Government of India and the college has submitted its reply with documentary evidences. The Government has redirected the matter to the MCI.
He claimed that the college has the necessary infrastructure and the required number of faculty members to run a medical college.