Another medical college in Gulbarga district soon! Gulbarga city can soon boast of having three medical colleges following the approval of the Medical Council of India (MCI) to the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to start a medical college in Gulbarga with an intake of 100 students from the present academic year. Highly placed sources in the Medical Education Department told Express that the MCI, in its Board of Governors’ meeting held on Thursday, approved the matter considering the submission of an undertaking from an appropriate competent authority of the ESIC for rectification of deficiencies pointed out along with budgetary allocation. The sources said 45 seats will be filled by children of employees and employers registered with the Employees State Insurance Corporation and 15 seats will be for the all India quota and 45 seats for the state government quota. Principal of ESIC Medical College Dr Chandrashekhar told Express that adequate staff have already been recruited for anatomy, physiology and biochemistry departments in the college and it is ready to function from the current academic year. ESIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state government to use the Government Hospital of Gulbarga for clinical training purposes for a year. The classes for the first year MBBS course will take place in the New ESIC Medical College with help from the Government Hospital for clinical training. Within a year, ESIC will construct its own super-specialty hospital in Gulbarga. The Medical Council of India has also given its nod to the ESIC to start medical colleges in Kolkata and K K Nagar in Chennai from this year. Gulbarga already has two medical colleges (Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College and KBN Medical College). In Gulbarga region, Bidar, Raichur and Bellary have government medical colleges, while the districts of Koppal and Yadgir lack medical colleges. Sources in the Central University of Karnataka (situated in Gulbarga) said a proposal from the university to establish a medical college is pending for approval in the Human Resources Department. State Minister for Medical Education Dr Sharana Prakash Patil has already said there is a proposal before the government to establish government medical colleges in all districts.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:40:30 +0000