SRINAGAR A team of the regulatory body, Medical Council of India (MCI), is carrying out the inspection of the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar and its associated hospitals to check the staff and infrastructure shortage.
According to officials the MCI team arrived in Srinagar here on Monday on a four-day visit to examine the teaching standards of undergraduate courses in medical colleges. The team comprises of four-members and it visited the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar and checked the surgery, medicine, gynaecology and paediatrics departments of the hospital for its staff shortage and the infrastructure as well.
A senior official of the GMC said that the MCI team checked whether the Medical College was equipped with adequate number of faculty members, classrooms and theatres to teach 150 MBBS students.
Officials added that the team inspected the GMC to check its academic activities as well as the equipments and the bed capacity of the hospital.
The team checked both the manpower of doctors and paramedical staff, said a faculty member of the college. He however said the MCI team was satisfied with the overall academic activities at the college.
Officials that the in 2013 the MCI had recommended to increase the intake capacity of both the Government Medical Colleges of Srinagar and Jammu from 100 to 150 and that of SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, from 50 to 100.
However there are also remained concerns over the non availability of teaching aids with officials fearing the downgrade in their rankings.
The inspection of GMC and its associated hospitals comes even as the patients have earlier complained lack of equipments as well as the trend doctors skipping the duties. There have been frequent incidents of fracas between the patients and doctors due to lack of care at the GMC and its associated hospitals including SMHS and the Lalla Ded.
There have also been concerns of the lack of sanitation at the hospitals.
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