The Government Medical College, Ernakulam, which had lost recognition for the postgraduate courses in the institution because of lack of infrastructure and faculty has admitted students in all the five streams of specialisation.
The postgraduate courses in the medical college had a total of 11 seats with three seats in general medicine and two each in paediatrics, psychiatry, microbiology and pathology.
The government has failed to introduce the facilities suggested by the inspectors from the Medical Council of India.
Students were admitted to the courses on the basis of the State’s letter of undertaking to the Union Health Ministry towards improving infrastructure, addressing faculty shortage and opening of superspecialty departments.
Postgraduate students in the institute had been posted in other medical colleges for their clinical studies with respect to all super-specialties. It is only last month that a full-time professor in cardiology was posted in the medical college here. A professor in nephrology was also posted recently.
Hopefully, more doctors would join the department now, said a doctor in the medical college. According to the medical college authorities, it is the government decision to admit students. “When the Union Ministry grants recognition to the courses, it will be with retrospective effect,†said Principal Dr. V.K. Sreekala.
Ramla Beevi, Director, Medical Education, said that the government had been making efforts to boost the infrastructure and get more faculty to improve facilities to retain the PG seats in all the State-run medical colleges. It is learnt that there are nearly 40-odd PG seats across the State which are not recognised.
PG students passing out from the State-run medical colleges, which do not have the required recognition for a course, would find it difficult to take up jobs abroad.