A team of the Medical Council of India (MCI) visited the associated hospital and academic block of the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) on Wednesday.
The arrival of the team took the college administration by surprise. The MCI team inspected the services and facilities in the hospital and took note of the things. On the report of the team the apex body of medical education would decide on second renewal of letter of permission issued last year.
The second renewal of the permission would pave the way for admission of third batch of the MBBS students next year. The team consisted of Professor of Community Medicine of MGM medical College Dr Sanjay Dixit, Professor of Ophthalmology North Bengal Medical College, Kolkata Dr DR Saha and Professor Gulbarga Medical College Gulbarga, Dr C Karapurkar.
The trio visited the wards, operation theatres, registration counter, billing section, radiology facilities, pathology laboratory and blood bank of the hospital.
The Medical Education Director Dr Ashutosh Sayana, Medical Superintendent (MS) of the hospital Dr KK Tamta, Deputy Superintendent Dr JS Rana and other senior doctors of the hospital accompanied the team.
After visiting the hospital the team inspected facilities at the medical college. The lecture theatres, library and hostels were also inspected by the team.
The visiting team of the MCI also had a head count of the faculty members of the medical college.
The Principal of the GDMC, Dr Pradeep Bharati Gupta claimed that the inspecting MCI team appeared satisfied by the facilities and services. He informed that the MCI team did head count of the members of the faculty.
The MCI team is on a two day visit and would further inspect the facilities in the medical college on Thursday. The team is also expected to visit the associated primary health centre of the hospital at Mehuwala, Nehru Gram, Balawala and Thano. The team would also prepare its report on the day.
The apex body of medical education had granted the lOP to the GDMC on June 8 last year based on which admission to 150 students was given in the I year MBBS course. later, the renewal of lOP was granted to the college after which students in the II batch were granted admissions this year.