A three-member Medical Council of India (MCI) team carried surprise inspection of State-owned MGM Medical College and Hospital on Thursday. The team of MCI was led by coordinator JS Mallik, professor of preventive and social medicine, Rohtak Medical College (Haryana), Partha Pradhan, principal and HoD of anatomy, Bankura Sammilani Medical College (West Bengal) and Elangoveru Chellappa, professor and HoD Orthopaedic, Tirunevelli Medical College (Tamil Nadu). The team found that nothing has been done to improve the manpower strength both at clinical (hospital) and academics (at the college) level required for running of a medical college with 100 seats capacity.
"I cannot divulge my findings but we are here to conduct the inspection of the medical college hospital, and will submit my report to the MCI shortly," said an MCI official. In June 2014, the MCI teams after inspecting MGM Medical College and Hospital in Jamshedpur had recommended for reducing of seats at the medical cradle. It had slashed 50 seats from its 100 seats for MGM Medical College and Hospital.
Following this Jharkhand High Court came to the students' help and stated that the slashed seats in August after the State Government promised to hire new faculty members and upgrade the colleges according to MCI specifications within 10 months. During the inspection, JS Mallick reviewed registers of doctors, nurses and paramedics at the MGM Medical College and Hospital and also visited the rural health center at Judi near Hata, Partha Pradhan inspected the college infrastructure and staff strength at MGM Medical College in Dimna and Elangoveru Chellappa inspected the MGM Medical College and Hospital at Sakchi.
Sources informed that the MCI team expressed dissatisfaction to the MGM Medical College and Hospital superintendent RY Choudhary and the college principal. A N Mishra about lack of professors and associate professors in almost all of its departments. "We cannot reveal about our visit but yes there is lack of professors in departments like medicine, skin, surgery and paediatric. There is shortage in even nursing and paramedic strength," said Chellappa.