The recognition of private medical colleges across the country can be taken away due to lack of resources, professors and resident doctors. The High Court has upheld the decision of the Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India (MCI), which prohibits the introduction of a new batch of MBBS in private medical colleges due to lack of more than five per cent of professors and resident doctors.
Justice Anu Malhotra has given this ruling, dismissing the pleas of several private medical colleges and hospitals. The Medical Colleges challenged the High Court’s decision of the Board of Governors of MCI under which they were not allowed to start a new batch of MBBS for the academic session 2019-20. Court has said that during the inspection, there is a shortage of professors, resident doctors, resources as well as patients in the medical college.
Even the number of big and small operations in these colleges is very less, in such a situation, MCI’s decision to not allow these medical colleges to start a new batch of MBBS does not show any shortcomings. The High Court has said that there is a shortage of 84 percent professors, more than 65 percent resident doctors in the medical college and this cannot be ignored.
Petition dismissed: The High Court has rejected the petitions filed by five private medical colleges and hospitals. MCI’s Board of Governors had prohibited these colleges from admitting students for MBBS course in the next session. In almost all the medical colleges knocking on the high court, the teachers, resident doctors and the lack of resources informed the advocate presented by MCI.
Heavy shortage of professors at Venkateshwara Institute: According to the MCI report, the Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Science (Medical College) saw a decrease of 83.7 per cent in the number of professors, while the number of resident doctors was down by 65.16 per cent. The average number of hospitalized patients in the college was just 16 percent. Apart from this, there were six other types of deficiencies, on the basis of which the new batch of MBBS was banned by MCI. These medical colleges are in Uttar Pradesh.
College’s argument rejected
The High Court rejected the plea of Mulayam Singh Yadav Medical College and Hospital, Meerut, stating that the MCI committee had conducted an inspection on the next day of Navratri last year. Due to this there was a shortage of Professor and Resident Doctor during inspection. According to the inspection report, 7.4 percent of the teachers in this medical college,There was a shortage of 8.5 percent resident doctors. Not only this, according to the MCI report, there was a shortage of technical and other resources along with a decrease in the number of patients in the hospital of this medical college. The college sought permission to start a second batch of 150 capacity MBBS.
