The Puducherry Government has initiated measures to ensure that the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Research Institute (IGMC&RI) complied with all the regulations stipulated by the Medical Council of India (MCI) to ensure hassle free admissions to students in the MBBS course at the beginning of the academic year.
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The move follows the Government given an undertaking to the MCI that all the deficiencies would be rectified in time.
It may be recalled that the council had earlier refused to grant renewal of permission even after it carried out an inspection earlier this year. The MCI, while denying permission had cited inadequate teaching and non-teaching staff and infrastructure in the college.
A top official in the college told The Hindu that measures had been initiated to provide infrastructure and appoint resident doctors and adequate number of faculty in the institution.
The faculty deficiency in the institution remained at 6 to 7 percent which was less than the permissible limit of 10 percent.
Resident doctors
The government was not finding any problem in appointing Resident Doctors and specialists.
But most of them did not stay in the college for over a year leading to severe shortage in the sanctioned strength, he said.
The MCI team had also pointed out lack of specialised equipments including a Computerised Tomography (CT) scan in the medical college besides residential quarters for faculty and an auditorium.
The Government has sanctioned a State-of-the-art 128 multi-slice CT scanner. The instrument has reached the college and will be functional in a week’s time.
The Government will be soon be sending a compliance report to the MCI on the deficiencies pointed out by the council.
The college was declared open by the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in 2010 during the previous Congress regime. The college has been denied approval during the last five years and it got the approval only during the nick of time.
To provide infrastructure and appoint resident doctors and adequate faculty in the college
