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| SKIMS Medical College faces de-recognition | | No danger to college: Director | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Oct 18: Even after 14 years of takeover of the then Jhelum Valley Medical College (JVC) by the Shere-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), the prestigious institution itself has failed to transform the institution into a full-fledged Medical College and is faced with danger of de-recognition by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
Reliable sources told KNS that the college, which had an initial strength of 280 beds in 1998 at the time of its takeover by the SKIMS, is presently having only 220 beds.
"The SKIMS administration has not bothered to increase the bed strength of the Medical college hospital to 400 beds which is a pre-requisite for a Medical college of 50 student intake capacity. An increase in student intake to 100, which the J&K Health Ministry has proposed, is a distant dream under such circumstances", the sources added.
A senior doctor, wishing anonymity, said the bed strength of 400 for the hospital is mandatory for MCI Recognition as the teaching units of SKIMS Soura will not be accepted as part of the college by the MCI. Sources inside the college told KNS that SKIMS Soura has been deputing a Faculty member as the Principal to the SKIMS Medical College, which results in suffering of work at both SKIMS soura and the SKIMS College at Bemina.
"A full time Principal/ Vice Principal is needed as any suitable Professor among the existing ones in SKIMS Medical College can deliver better as he/she would be well versed with the college affairs and ground reality in an undergraduate institution, they said.
Besides teaching and non teaching faculty the college sans various diagnostic equipments like MRI, CT Scan, Digital X-Ray, Laproscope, Surgical and Medical Intensive Care Unit and life saving gadgets and advanced diagnostic equipment, sources said. "So much as the hospital is yet to establish staff reading room, daftaries, book binders, microfilm reading room, video room, and journal room, they added."
"While ASCOMS Sidhra Jammu has managed to start PG courses within only 8 years of its establishment, but SKIMS Medical College with 14 years of takeover is same as it was in 1998, said a senior doctor at institute further lamenting, "We failed to utilize Central schemes and funds as most of the Medical College in country have increased MBBS and PG seats with the help of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Govt of India."
Another senior doctor opined that it is high time that Government upgrades the maternity and childcare services at the hospital instead of spending huge amount in constructing a New Hospitals at Bemina and added if this hospital start functioning faculty of Pediatrics and Gynae and Obstetrics it perhaps will have reduced the burden on overcrowded hospitals like Lal Ded and GB Panth Hospital.
"This way the bed strength of JVC will cross 400 which is mandatory for MCI Recognition.
However, Director SKIMS, Dr Showkat Zargar when contacted categorically said there is no danger of de-recognition of the Medical college as the 50 seats allotted to the college are in the name of SKIMS soura and not the erstwhile JVC. "We have been given permission to use the facilities of SKIMS Soura and three inspections have been done by the MCI in the past.
Regarding making the college an independent Medical College, he said they have submitted a plan of Rs 140 crores to the Central Government, which is expected to be approved by December 2012. |
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