MCI team irked with rude faculty members of GMC
http://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=10661&date=2015-10-13&pageid=1 PANAJI: Atleast a dozen faculty members, including two heads of departments of the Goa Medical College failed to satisfy the inspectors deputed by the Medical Council of India (MCI) for inspection of the facilities, staff and other requirements at the only medical college in the state so as to continue its recognition for admission of 150 students in the future. Authoritative sources said that the MCI inspectors have taken a serious view of the faculty members not producing their original certificates, failing to sign the muster rolls sent to the operation theatres and out-patient departments where they were posted besides failing to meet various other requirements as per the MCI guidelines. The sources said that the rude and uncooperative behaviour of the faculty members irked the inspection team members, who had to summon them to seek explanation, to which the faculty members took as an affront. The sources also denied that any operation was cancelled or postponed besides empathetically maintaining the OPDs functioned normally. The sources said that to minimise action against them and to put the MCI inspectors on the back foot, the “aggrieved” faculty members “leaked” to media that operations were either cancelled or rescheduled and that the OPDs were closed. “If the OPDs were closed and operations were postponed or cancelled then why were the muster rolls sent to the OPDs and operation theatres before 9 am with specific directions that they were to be returned to the inspector by noon,” the sources said adding that it was only when the unsigned muster rolls were returned around noon that faculty was called by inspectors to seek explanation. According to the sources, while the government ensured that most of the requirements as laid down by the MCI were met, the “uncooperative” behaviour of a few faculty members has put a question mark on whether the GMC would have to undergo another inspection for failing to meet the requirements. The sources said that the government ensured that there was enough number of residents by invoking the bond condition on the students passing out of the GMC. As regards to the other requirement of seminar cum examination hall, the GSIDC assured the inspectors that it would be ready soon. The sources further said that for the first time in the history of GMC in recent years, the physical verification of the staff was completed before 8 pm unlike post midnight in previous years. The inspection was carried in new lecture halls at the request of dean Dr Pradip Naik. The MCI as well as the GMC authorities have issued standing instructions to the faculty members that they should keep their original certificates within the GMC campus so as to produce them before authorities at short notice. But quite a few faculty members have failed to adhere to the instructions. Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.