Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is expected to take a decision on the integration of staff in the Ernakulam Medical College (EMC) with the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday in Thiruvananthapuram.
The meeting will be based on the report on the staff’s certificate verification and authentication. A three-day exercise held at the medical college here by the Deputy Secretary of Health Department, senior officials in the DME and the Special Officer for takeover of medical college went through all the details of the 800-odd staff in the college.
As far as the integration of doctors are concerned there are some technical glitches. Appointment of doctors to the medical college, which was earlier under the Cooperative Academy of Professional Education, was done according to the norms of the Medical Council of India. But doctors enter the State medical college service under DME through State Public Service Commission. The criteria for promotion are different when a medical college is a single entity and when it is part of the colleges under DME.
Though the scrutiny of the certificates of the medical faculty was smooth, there were hassles while scrutinising documents of grade III and IV employees, said an official in the college.
The problem came up mainly because of the employees’ feeling of insecurity about keeping their jobs.
