The Medical Council of India is reportedly going to de-recognize all the six medical colleges of Bihar, including the Patna Medical College and Hospital, which is in the news these days for all the wrong reasons.
According to the media reports the MCI is to issue notices to the six medical collges asking them to fulfil its requirements and send the action taken report within a month.
MCI teams inspected different medical colleges of Bihar recently. When the team reached PMCH a month back it was embroiled in strikes by the junior doctors. The Council will be free to take any action, even de-recognition if these colleges fail to improve its condition.
Apart from other things the Council teams found 30 per cent shortage of teaching staff in these colleges. Reports said that the MCI decision came at its executive council meeting held recently. Besides PMCH, the other colleges facing de-recognition are Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital, Gaya, Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital, Darbhanga and Jawarharlal Nehru Medical College, Bhagalpur.
The MCI threat came at the time when the state government had decided to increase the number of students in the PMCH from 100 to 150. Besides, there is a move to open three more medical colleges in the state.
Source: Bihattimes.com 27/Jun/2008
