BMC to take
action against Nerul-based Dr D Y Patil
Medical College
By Dinesh Kamath
NAVI MUMBAI: A Navi Mumbai-based private medical college has
breached an agreement with Mumbai’s civic body. A corporator, while raising the
issue, said that he wanted the long-pending matter sorted out at the earliest.
According
to an agreement signed in 1992, the Nerul-based Dr DY Patil Medical College was
to provide 35 resident medical officers and 20 lecturers to the Ghatkopar-based
Rajawadi hospital, which is run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
However,
the college has so far posted only 18 medical officers. Also, only five of its
20 lecturers are regular.
The
corporator is of the opinion that the medical college has violated the
agreement. Dr D Y Patil College of Nerul did not have a full-fledged hospital
of its own. Hence it had to sign the agreement because as per the law, a
medical college has to gain government approval to conduct courses and in order
to be able to obtain this approval, it must have a 700-bed hospital attached to
it.
The
college signed the agreement with Mumbai’s civic body to permit its students to
acquire practical training at Rajawadi hospital. In exchange, the college was
to send the lecturers and medical officers to the hospital, which it has not
done.
BMC
authorities are thinking in terms of taking urgent action over the flouting of
norms by the medical college. A letter has been sent to the dean of DY Patil
Medical College, asking the authorities to post resident medical officers along
with teaching staff.
It
was also found that certain lecturers sent to the civic hospital hold
post-graduate degrees awarded in Seychelles India
The
two doctors from DY Patil College will have to face the enquiry committee for
alleged medical negligence at Rajawadi hospital last year.
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