With the integration process of the medical college incomplete, no funds have been allotted for various developmental projects that were at various stages of work.
Besides the nursing students’ hostel, the payward in the medical college hospital has pending dues of Rs. 2.2 crore and is estimated to cost Rs. 12 crore to complete the project.
The government cannot pay the amount unless the Public Works Department verifies the dues and estimatee. The process, it is learnt, had already been started when the government took over the college in December 2013, but a report on the same is yet to be submitted.
The Principal of the Medical College, Dr. Ashwini Kumar, said that the payward is not as important as the nursing students hostel, without which the nursing college may even lose its recognition.
The teaching and non-teaching staff of the medical college had gone on strike on many occasions to press for full-fledged integration.
Even after one-and-a-half years of government takeover of the Cochin Medical College under the Co-operative Academy of Professional Education, steps for integration have been rather tardy. Integration happened only for the functioning of the hospital facilities and for the intake of students for various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Among some of the key issues that need to be addressed in the medical college, the prominent one includes integration of the staff with the Directorate of Medical Education. The government had created 350 posts but yet to recommend the names for these posts. The teaching and non-teaching staff still do not get the full complement of the salary due to delayed integration.
350 posts created, but faculty, non-teaching staff not integrated yet
Ladies hostel in Medical College overcrowded
No accommodation for post-graduate students
