Confident of securing the necessary permission from the Medical Council of India (MCI), the authorities of the Doon Medical College (DMC) have requested the apex body to send its team for re-inspection of the facilities. After the request it is expected that the team of MCI could visit the DMC in the second week of March.
The Principal of DMC, Dr Pradeep Bharati Gupta said that the college is ready for inspection. He informed that the DMC had requested for one month’s time from MCI in a hearing held on February 12.
The Director Medical Education, Dr Ashutosh Syana also sounded confident about the preparations. He said that the college now has recruited 90 percent of the faculty members required for the medical college and the preparations are going on a war footing for the visit. It is learnt that the Principal Dr Pradeep Bharati Gupta and those associated with the DMC are visiting their offices even on Sundays and other holidays so that a good picture is presented before the visiting team of MCI. The DMC authorities have also imposed a ban on leave of all its employees in wake of ensuing visit of MCI.
It is worth mentioning here that a team of MCI which had visited the college and associated hospital of DMC on January 05 and 06 had listed many shortcomings in facilities and asked the authorities to get them rectified soon. The MCI team of Dr R K Maheshwari of Swai Man Singh (SMS) Medical College Jaipur, Dr S Vishwanathan of Stanley Medical College, Chennai and Dr Vinay Agarwal of Meerut Medical College had also expressed its displeasure on the pending construction works. The optimism of the officials this time around emanates from the fact that DMC was able to recruit large number of the faculty members after the first visit of MCI.
The DMC is coming up different locations of the city. The Doon hospital and Doon women hospital are now associated hospital of DMC. A multi story Out Patient Department (OPD) of the Medical College is being constructed near Tehsil Chowk in the city. The administrative and academic buildings of the college are constructed at Dehra Khas area located in Patel Nagar. The emphasis of the authorities is to complete the construction and refurbishing works in the academic and administrative blocks before the MCI visit. The Uttar Pradesh Nirman Nigam limited is given the task of constructing the building of medical college the total project cost of which is about Rs383 crore.
