Institutes offering CPS courses urge medical education dept to inspect their premises

This comes in response to a show-cause notice issued by the department, which had identified anomalies in hospitals offering CPS-affiliated courses. 

Institutions affiliated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS) in Mumbai have asked the state medical education department to inspect of their premises, Hindustan Times reported. 

This comes in response to a show-cause notice issued by the department, which had identified anomalies in hospitals offering CPS-affiliated courses. The CPS is scheduled to meet medical education secretary Ashwini Joshi, on May 29 to respond to the notice. An investigation by the Maharashtra Medical Council last year found deficiencies in 45 institutions, with 73 refusing inspection. 

Following the investigation, in January and February this year, Joshi wrote twice to the Union Health Ministry on the state of affairs at the CPS and why admissions to its courses should be stopped.  The association of CPS-affiliated institutes then met Nitin Gadkari and sought his intervention. Gadkari then wrote to chief secretary Manukumar Srivastava on March 9 accusing Joshi of creating an impediment to CPS work.

Joshi’s office sent the first show-cause notice on March 14 as she sent a strong rebuttal to Srivastava in response to Gadkari’s letter, defending her stand and citing examples of Rajasthan and Gujarat that had stopped admissions to CPS courses.  

When the representatives of CPS met Joshi, they were asked for further clarifications and given a second hearing date (March 24). However, CPS decided to approach the Bombay high court by filing a writ petition (hiring for the same was held on April 17) to start the admission process, which was halted after the state medical education initiated an inquiry.  

Meanwhile, a committee formed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare held its second meeting on CPS courses on May 25 to discuss the matter related to recognition of CPS courses, giving equivalence to these courses and whether to continue admission to these courses. 

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