Petition seeks inquiry into medical courses offered over past five years

Pointing out the Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association’s (TNGDA) admission that assistant and associate professors of government medical colleges were unofficially transferred for a day to pose as professors before the MCI inspection committee and later returned to their regular posts after the inspection every year, Change India director A Narayanan, in a representation to the MCI, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Directorate of Medical Education and others said this confirmed the allegation about the modus operandi followed by government and private medical college managements.

Citing an incident that transpired at MelmaruvathurAdhiparasakhti Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in 2012, wherein 25 doctors who posed as full-time faculties were removed from the Indian Medical Register and barred from practice for three to five years, Narayanan said it was alleged that CBI and MCI deliberately diluted and weakened the case against the private college.

This led to the Madras High Court quashing CBI investigation into impersonation, forgery and bribery charges against them.

Noting that the same college has managed to procure approval for 150 MBBS seats this year, Narayanan said, “MCI should this year identify all the players who have been a part of these fraudulent deals to obtain permission for the courses and colleges, and debar all doctors who had indulged or cooperated in such fraudulent practices.” While seeking to review the entire process of inspections, approval, recognition and permission, the plea sought the MCI to undertake reforms to pre-empt such fraudulent practices, and also sought to put out the names, registration numbers and photos of the doctors found guilty of professional misconduct, in the MCI web portal and ensure that they are barred from practice.