NMC warns to derecognise courses in SCB Medical College and Hospital

NMC has found deficiencies in SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack and issued show cause notice to de-recognise DM and MCh seats in nephrology and urology departments respectively as professor posts are lying vacant.

In a major setback to the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, National Medical Commission has flagged serious deficiencies and warned to withhold recognition for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

This came at a time when the institution is being transformed into an AIIMS-plus institution at a cost of over INR 5,000 crore.

The undergraduate medical education board (UGMEB) of NMC found that the dermatology and respiratory medicine departments have no faculty or senior resident doctors. Many posts are vacant in various departments including one assistant professor and five tutors/demonstrators in community medicine; one professor, one associate professor, two assistant professors and four tutors/demonstrators in forensic medicine and toxicology; seven associate professors and five senior residents in general surgery and one associate professor and three tutors/demonstrators in the microbiology department, as reported by Indian Express.

Also, posts of one professor and two associate professors in pharmacology; one professor and one senior resident doctor in radio-diagnosis; two associate professors, three assistant professors and five tutors in physiology; two associate professors and three senior residents in orthopaedics and five senior residents in obstetrics and gynaecology departments are lying vacant.

The NMC has also issued a show cause notice to de-recognise DM and MCh seats in nephrology and urology departments respectively as professor posts are lying vacant.

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