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Dumka, Dec.22: The one-man team of the National Medical Council (NMC) concluded its two-day inspection of the Phulo Jhano Medical College and Hospital (PJMCH) here on Wednesday and found acute deficiencies of the infrastructural facilities particularly in terms of the lack of an adequate number of teachers in different departments.
The deficiencies if not been removed in time may prove costly to the existence of PJMCH which, however, has been given the nod by the national watchdog agency for admission of students in the upcoming academic session of 2021-22 on such assurance of the management to fulfil the criterion beforehand the next academic session from 2022-23 onwards.
The inspection team which was headed by Dr Ramesh BH of Karnataka has taken strong exception to the fact that not a single teacher was posted in at least five departments with more other departments also lacking the number of teachers according to the sanctioned strength.
“Although this NMC inspection won’t affect the admission process for the academic year of 2021-22 for being already approved on the basis of our assurances to ensure availability of requisite infrastructural facilities shortly. But the same if not improved to the level of minimum basic standards will prove costly in terms of going ahead with the MBBS teaching at the PJMCH any further,” the Principal (in-charge) of the PJMCH Dr Arun Kumar admitted.
Dr Kumar also admitted that there was no faculty member in altogether five departments including those in the Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Radiology, Skin and Anaesthesia departments ever since the MBBS course started at the PJMCH from the academic session of 2019-20.
It was due to the aforesaid backdrop that the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI) did not approve the PJMCH to go ahead with the admission process for its MBBS course for the previous academic session of 2020-21.
The students of the maiden batch of the MBBS course of the PJMCH too had to run from pillar to post to raise their voices against the lack of proper teaching facilities.
“The PJMCH can continue to run the MBBS course for next academic sessions if at least posting of faculties are ensured in at least those departments where there is no one now,” Dr Kumar said not preferring to divulge the figures of the actual strength of facilities and postings against them all.
