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HC directive on medical college

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI JAN. 9. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday directed the State Government to state whether the Government was willing to accommodate the students of the Kochi Cooperative Medical College in the five medical colleges in the State.

The Bench comprising the Chief Justice J. L. Gupta and Justice M. Ramachandran directed C. K. Adbul Rahim, counsel for the State, to find out whether the Government was willing to make adequate facilities available for clinical studies etc, by handing over the administration of the Ernakulam District Hospital to the college so that the facilities for clinical education and accommodation were available.

The directives were issued when a pending writ petition filed by Mary Louis Manavalan and three other students seeking their transfer to any other medical colleges for the completion of their MBBS course came up before the Bench.

When the petition was taken up for hearing, K. Radhakrishnan, senior counsel for the petitioners, submitted that there was complete lack of facilities. Neither the building nor any equipment was in place. Not only that, even the facilities for clinical education were not available. Showing pictures, he submitted that there was no likelihood of the facilities being made available in the near future. It was also suggested that orders for their transfer to different medical colleges run by the Government could be passed.

The Council for the Indian Medical Counsel, George Poonthottam, however, took objection to the students being transferred to other colleges. He submitted that students could not be admitted to other colleges midstream and in excess of the seats allotted/approved by the council.

The Bench then opined that it appeared to it the complaints of the petitioners were well founded.

The Bench had earlier directed the Cooperative Academy for Professional Education(CAPE) not to admit fresh batch of MBBS students in the Cooperative Medical College, without obtaining the permission of the Bench.

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