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Tamil Nadu
By S. Vijay Kumar
While the intake in the Coimbatore and Tirunelveli colleges will be enhanced from 110 to 150, the existing strength of 75 in the Kilpauk (Chennai) and Salem colleges will be increased to 150. The Chengalpattu medical college, which has 50 seats now, will get 100 seats more. The 315 teaching posts will be filled up temporarily and regularised soon after the MCI approves the additional intake, the Director of Medical Education, C. Ravindranath, told The Hindu here today. In view of a sharp decline in the intake in non-clinical postgraduate courses, resulting in poor faculty strength in a majority of medical colleges, the Government evolved a three-point formula. Besides admitting candidates on merit, based on entrance examination performance, doctors (undergraduates) working in rural areas, with five years experience, would be accommodated in unfilled seats. "They need not write the PG entrance examination and will be selected on their meeting the eligibility criteria." The second option was to make teaching more attractive by allowing doctors, who had completed three years in teaching non-clinical courses, to take up the Diploma in National Board Examination (equivalent to doctorate in surgery/medicine), and to induct them in the same department. "If these strategies also fail, we will go for direct recruitment of retired professors on a contract basis."
New medical colleges soon
Dr. Ravindranath said the three medical colleges, proposed in Vellore, Kanyakumari and Theni districts, were likely to admit students from 2003-2004. As the existing government hospitals in these towns were not suitable for being attached to the colleges, it was decided to construct new hospitals at a total cost of Rs. 15 crores. An additional sanction of Rs. 7 crores would be made for the Andipatti college. The Government had also sanctioned Rs. 28 crores for improving basic infrastructure in all medical college-attached hospitals.
PG exam centre cancelled
The DME said the postgraduate centre (for MD) in the Madurai Medical College was cancelled as certain irregularities were reported in the conduct of previous examinations. However, efforts were on to persuade the Government to reconsider its decision. A foolproof method of conducting examinations was also being contemplated.
Show-cause to doctors
Meanwhile, all doctors and paramedical staff involved in the Periyakulam cataract surgery, which left 46 patients with severe post-operative complications, would be served with show-cause notices soon. "Action is imminent against on all those involved in the operation," said Dr. Ravindranath. Bitter about the Periyakulam incident, which left 21 patients blind in one eye, the Health department brought out stringent guidelines, making practitioners (who perform the surgery) accountable for quality `pre and post-operative care' of patients. "This is to ensure that they (the doctors) do not entrust the responsibility with others after the operation." On compensation to the victims, Dr. Ravindranath said the eye camp was a Government of India programme and any relief would be decided by the Centre based on a final enquiry report.
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