Thursday, March 19, 2015

MCI report puts CMCH’s MBBS course in jeopardy

A damning assessment report by the Medical Council of India (MCI) has put at risk the MBBS course offered by Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH), which treated nearly 10,000 patients on any given day from not only the Western districts of Tamil Nadu but even the border districts of Kerala.

The MCI assessors had inspected the college on January 9 and 10 to consider a proposal to increase the MBBS seats from the existing 150 to 250 for 2015-16.

Sources said that the assessors found a number of deficiencies, including shortage of faculty by 17.98 per cent, and lack of a statistician to perform computerised indexing of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and in infrastructure.

In view of these problems, the Executive Committee of the MCI recommended to the Centre not to issue a letter of permission to the CMCH to increase its seats to 250.

Further, the committee invoked the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 to recommend the cancellation of recognition to the CMCH to offer MBBS course.

Following this report, CMCH Dean A. Edwin Joe met the Union Health Ministry officials in New Delhi on March 13 and explained the facilities available at the CMCH.

He briefed the officials about the development works under way at the CMCH.

Following this, sources said that the Ministry recommended to the MCI to consider permitting the CMCH to continue offering the MBBS course without an increase in seats.

Senior officials in the Directorate of Medical Education were confident that the CMCH would be allowed to offer MBBS course.
The executive committee recommends cancellation of recognition

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