| ‘Root cause analysis’ is a freely used term. Quality Gurus mention it while trying to solve problems or induce improvement in existing systems and processes. It could help to use it while scrutinizing not just the current state of affairs of the Medical education system in India but also the irregularities like medical colleges operating with lack of requisite infrastructure … and the truth would spill out.The shocking revelation of the corruption that MCI Chief Ketan Desai , was arrested for as he demanded 2 crores to grant permission to a college which had been deemed unsuitable to provide medical education by MCI’s own inspection committee poses serious questions on the functions of the council.
A greater handle on medical education is urgently required to ensure that the quality of healthcare professionals churned out in the future are highly competent and on par with the rest of the world. The Government has taken it’s first step in the right direction by allowing Private Bodies to setup medical colleges. The Government should also create stringent guidelines to regulate the colleges to avoid incidences that would bring the medical education system under scrutiny. |
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Power corrupts and absolute power tends …. MCI , I would say the most powerful organisation in India. (I have noticed if any state branch of Medical council called for a strike the political vehicle shakes and within a day or two all the demands are fulfilled .. though might sound irrelevant, this is how the “flex” ability is there. And when it comes to grant of medical colleges, to establish a medical college a minimum sum of 150 to 200 crores might be required, so when so much money is involved and comes to stand still / gets lingered due to futile inspection visits not leading to grants, it becomes a pain for the authority and hence we see the consequences ( if proven true). There would be hardly any government medical colleges which had been established last 2 decades. The private medical colleges plunge in to this , the main aim is to make it a spinning machine / a good business. So money laundering is not something to be astonished about.And a question arises, ” did these practices not exist before ” and why it came to light now only ?
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