Minister of State for Medical Education Sharanprakash Patil has said the State has initiated measures to ensure that all government medical colleges, including the new ones, comply with Medical Council of India (MCI) regulations so as to get all medical seats allotted without any hassles at the beginning of the academic year.
Dr. Patil told presspersons here on Thursday that the Medical Education Department had started the exercise of identifying deficiencies in the staffing pattern and infrastructure in government medical colleges to take remedial steps in advance to enable these colleges to get the MCI nod for admissions.
The department had completed the review of government medical colleges in Mysore and Belgaum and by September-end, identification of deficiencies in government medical colleges in Hubli and Bellary would be completed, the Minister said. The review of government medical colleges in Bangalore and Bidar would be taken up next month.
Measures were also being initiated to provide infrastructure and teaching and non-teaching staff in the six new government medical colleges in Gulbrga, Gadag, Karwar, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, and Koppal (MCI nod has been sought for starting admissions in these colleges) and those proposed in Bagalkot, Tumkur and Chitradurga to ensure that there would be no last-minute hurdles when the MCI team comes for inspection.
Dr. Patil said instructions had been issued to fill all vacancies.
The government was not encountering any major problem in finding doctors and specialists for the colleges in Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli and Bellary, it was finding it difficult to get specialists in the fields of radiology, TB and chest medicine, and psychiatry for the colleges in Hassan, Mandya, Shimoga, Bidar and Raichur.
To a question, he said measures had been taken for walk-in recruitment for specialists in the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Raichur.
