Nov 30 2014 : The Times of India (Chennai)
Docs get lakhs to pose as faculty at MCI checks
rema nagarajan
They Help Colleges Fix Inspection
Docs get lakhs to pose as faculty at MCI checks
rema nagarajan
They Help Colleges Fix Inspection
A senior doctor can reportedly earn as much as Rs 5-6 lakh within a couple of days just for showing up for a medical college inspection, and posing as a faculty member.
Inspections by teams from the Medical Council of India (MCI) for increasing the number of seats in a medical college, renewing its recognition or establishing a new one have been the subject of several court cases and CBI investigations for more than a decade. Yet, nothing seems to have changed. A senior doctor narrated to TOI how he was recently approached by a private medical college in Uttar Pradesh and offered several lakhs to be on its faculty list during an inspection.
A look at the CBI chargesheets and investigation into various cases from 2001 onwards shows that everything from leaking information about the so-called surprise MCI inspection to the concerned college, fixing inspections by selecting inspectors who will write the final report to buying faculty, residents and patients to fulfill the criteria for getting recognition have been resorted to. Things appear to have changed little today . According to Dr Mukul Kapoor, director of anaesthesia in Saket City Hospital, he was offered `5 lakh just to be present for the two days of the MCI inspection.“Within a few days, a senior person from the college called me, upping the offer to `6 lakh. I am an MCI-recognized PG teacher working in a non-teaching hospital, and so I get regular telephonic offers to come as ghost faculty (professor) for two days of the MCI inspection. I have kept away from the temptation,“ said Dr Kapoor. Just last month, Dr Ka poor received a mail from a so-called medical executive search firm regarding “urgent requirement of doctors for MCI inspection in Ghaziabad“.
They were looking for senior residents and assistant professors in anaesthesia at the rate of ` 15,000 per day for senior residents and ` 20,000 per day for assistant professors, specifically for two days. “Obviously, the medical college knew in advance about the so-called `surprise inspection' and was getting ready to place bogus faculty through these consultants.So they have been tipped off from within the MCI system. The fraud positioning of faculty and personnel has become such an open corruption that they are not even scared of sending such emails,“ said Dr Kapoor, who immediately forwarded the email to the health minister and his PA before the inspection date.He got no response from the ministry.
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Inspections by teams from the Medical Council of India (MCI) for increasing the number of seats in a medical college, renewing its recognition or establishing a new one have been the subject of several court cases and CBI investigations for more than a decade. Yet, nothing seems to have changed. A senior doctor narrated to TOI how he was recently approached by a private medical college in Uttar Pradesh and offered several lakhs to be on its faculty list during an inspection.
A look at the CBI chargesheets and investigation into various cases from 2001 onwards shows that everything from leaking information about the so-called surprise MCI inspection to the concerned college, fixing inspections by selecting inspectors who will write the final report to buying faculty, residents and patients to fulfill the criteria for getting recognition have been resorted to. Things appear to have changed little today . According to Dr Mukul Kapoor, director of anaesthesia in Saket City Hospital, he was offered `5 lakh just to be present for the two days of the MCI inspection.“Within a few days, a senior person from the college called me, upping the offer to `6 lakh. I am an MCI-recognized PG teacher working in a non-teaching hospital, and so I get regular telephonic offers to come as ghost faculty (professor) for two days of the MCI inspection. I have kept away from the temptation,“ said Dr Kapoor. Just last month, Dr Ka poor received a mail from a so-called medical executive search firm regarding “urgent requirement of doctors for MCI inspection in Ghaziabad“.
They were looking for senior residents and assistant professors in anaesthesia at the rate of ` 15,000 per day for senior residents and ` 20,000 per day for assistant professors, specifically for two days. “Obviously, the medical college knew in advance about the so-called `surprise inspection' and was getting ready to place bogus faculty through these consultants.So they have been tipped off from within the MCI system. The fraud positioning of faculty and personnel has become such an open corruption that they are not even scared of sending such emails,“ said Dr Kapoor, who immediately forwarded the email to the health minister and his PA before the inspection date.He got no response from the ministry.
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