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| Union Health Ministry set to cancel permission to admit 100 students, MCI puts even 50 on notice | | MBBS in SKIMS comes under cloud! | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Aug 17: Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry is likely to cancel permission granted to Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura to admit 100 students from the last year.
This development comes at a time when Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) has already recommended 100 students who qualified Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission in SKIMS for the year 2014-15. Union Ministry Health Ministry has already disapproved request of more than 38 colleges across the country on the recommendations of Medical Council of India (MCI).
SKIMS is on the edge and permission is likely to be cancelled in a week's time, said the sources. This is despite the fact that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is chairman of the governing body. The decision is likely to put career of around 50 students admitted for pursuing MBBS in the 2014-15 batch against increased intake capacity of 100 in jeopardy.
They are at risk of being asked to pursue MBBS course against seats not recognised by Medical Council of India (MCI) which looks after medical sciences across the country and on whose recommendations, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry takes all major decisions pertaining to medical colleges. This all is happening because SKIMS preferred not to share MCI's penalisation with Jammu and Kashmir Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE).
Early Times is in possession of copy of the minutes of meeting of the executive committee of Medical Council of India (MCI) held on June 13, 2014 at 11 am in the council office at Sector 8, Pocket 14, Dwarka, New Delhi. According to these minutes, Medical Council of India (MCI) has recommended Union Health Ministry not to renew permission to Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) to admit students against increased intake of 100 MBBS students.
MCI has referred to assessment report of the SKIMS Soura and pointed out 23 critical deficiencies in the physical and other teaching facilities which are not available in SKIMS and because of which renewal of permission for admission of 2nd batch against the increased intake i.e. from 50 to 100 students cannot be given. Not only this, MCI has even put the recognition for the award of MBBS degree with intake of 50 seats on notice.
They have asked the management to submit compliance report towards rectification of deficiencies within a period of 3 months to the Medical Council of India, thus putting virtually questioning the capability of SKIMS to admit students for pursuing MBBS from this institute. If the management of SKIMS is not able to bridge these deficiencies, MCI is likely to disallow admission of 50 students in what once used to be one of the prestigious institutes in the state.
This decision had been communicated to SKIMS vide council's decision no. MCI-5(2)/2014-Med/Misc. From Jammu and Kashmir, Anil Mahajan who is head of the department of Medicine in Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu attended the meeting as member of the executive committee. Referring to availability of just 122 teaching beds, council has stated that the qualifying criteria under section 3(2)(5) of establishment of medical college regulations, 1999 pertaining to the person owning and managing a hospital of not less than 300 beds is not met with.
Departments which include Physiology, Radiodiagnosis, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine and Community Medicine are deficient in both teaching as well as infrastructural facilities. Deficiency is faculty is around 52.21 percent while shortage of resident is hovering over 61.6 percent. Ironically, council has said that entire faculty except one in the department of biochemistry is non-medical with M.Sc and Ph.D from the non-medical institutes.
MCI decision has rung alarm bells in BOPEE. They are surprised over SKIMS not communicating this development to them on time. According to sources in the BOPEE, SKIMS did not communicate the decision of MCI to them. They added that if the decision would have been communicated on time, they would not have held the test for 100 seats and instead, gone ahead with 50 seats only.
Sources further said that BOPEE is likely to take up the issue of this MCI rider to Union Health Ministry about admissions with the management of SKIMS as well as the higher officials in the state government. They added that mistake is on the parts of management of SKIMS and not BOPEE. "If there is any such thing, college should have communicated to us. Even then, we would not sit back and relax but find out truth about this new development. Our priority is students and we would be solidly behind them if this is what MCI has recommended union ministry," said Chairman of BOPEE Prof.R.D.Sharma on being asked about this new development. |
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