Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, February 28: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today said that emergence of sub-standard and even fake private medical colleges in several parts of the country has created piquant situation in the medical sector in India. The LGP said with private sector entering into medical education massive irregularities have led to sharp decline and causing health hazard.
The spokesman of the party said here on Thursday that revelation of one such medical college in Madhya Pradesh where there was neither faculty nor patients is just tip of the iceberg as similar situation is prevailing in large number of private medical colleges in UP, Karnataka, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and several other states. The spokesman said the regulatory body-Medical Council of India (MCI)- has also failed to control the situation and even has turned blind eye to the irregularities in many cases. The spokesman said with “ghost patients and Ghost doctors†medical education system in private sector is in dire distress and required governmental intervention to stop the mess. The spokesman said that move for National Medical Commission to replace the MCI has also been pushed to backburner after the protest from the medical fraternity. Demanding to strengthen the provisions of regulation the spokesman said private operators cannot be allowed to cheat the people and play with the lives of patients.
The spokesman has thus demanded penal action against private sector medical colleges, which have been committing grave irregularities in providing services to the people. Pointing out that the functioning in these colleges highly objectionable the spokesman said lack of effective governmental control to regulate them has immensely accentuated the problems. The spokesman said even the government is spending around Rs 8 to ten crore on education of each doctor in government medical colleges but poor people, whose tax money is being spent on them, has not been able to get proper benefits. The spokesman said medical services in the country are on ventilator and the government should pay urgent attention to reverse the situation
