This story is from December 18, 2014

MCI asks Gaya college to rectify deficiencies

The Medical Council of India has said the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College & Hospital (ANMMCH) at Gaya would not be granted permission to admit students for its 100 MBBS seats for coming academic session if the college fails to rectify its deficiencies till March.
MCI asks Gaya college to rectify deficiencies
PATNA: The Medical Council of India has said the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College & Hospital (ANMMCH) at Gaya would not be granted permission to admit students for its 100 MBBS seats for coming academic session if the college fails to rectify its deficiencies till March.
The deficiencies include shortage of manpower as well as lack of infrastructure. Senior resident doctors are short by over 60%.
The shortage of faculty is over 22%. An MCI report also says many of the ANMMCH wards are dirty and linens not worth using. There is no proper ventilation in the wards. Toilets outside the lecture halls are not functional, the report says.
ANMMCH principal Dr Sushil Kumar Mahato says he does not have a magic wand to rectify deficiencies in three months’ time. “Recruiting faculty members and doctors is the state government’s job,” he told TOI on Thursday. Asked if linen maintenance and cleanliness of wards were also the government’s job, he refused to comment.
The MCI report says wards of important departments like TB and chest, Skin and VD, and ENT are combined into medicine department. It says the ANMMCH has failed to take mandatory approvals of Atomic Energy Research Board for running its X-ray unit and PNDT approval for running its ultrasound unit.
A health department official said had a private ultrasound clinic run without this approval, it would have been shut. The principal has to take the initiative to take these mandatory approvals, he said.
The report further says adequate number of laboratory tests and even radiological tests for patients are not being conducted, thereby indicating that many patients have been denied these services. It says there are 18 tables in ANMMCH’s nine operation theatres (OTs) while every OT should ideally have only one table.

According to the report, some equipment in ICU are non- functional while central library does not have the number of journals as per requirement. “Not a single book was purchased after 2012 and journal after 2010,” the report says. The library does not have even a Xerox machine while the internet facility is a far cry for the college students. The college did not conduct a single CME (continuous medical education)) programme during the year, the report says.
Further, the report says, the college has only one laboratory of the pathology department. Students of microbiology have to learn the nuances in the laboratory of pathology department. Even clinical pharmacology and community medicine students do not have a lab of their own. The museum jars of anatomy department are black and dirty. There is no examination hall-cum-auditorium. Even hostels for students are not well maintained. Resident doctors are not allotted hostels, the MCI report says.
State health department spokesperson Anil Kumar said the government is recruiting faculty members and improving infrastructure too. “We hope we will be able to do the most to escape the MCI axe,” he said.
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