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Mysore Medical College seeks autonomous status
Autonomy status has become necessary in the backdrop of competition which will help the College provide for better service and facilities, Principal Rao said.
The Mysore Medical College (MMC) has submitted a proposal to the State government urging autonomous status and will be recognised as Krishnarajendra Institute of Medical Science once it attains that status, said College Principal Raghothama Rao. Addressing a press conference, the Principal said that he had discussed the issue with Deputy Chief Minister and Medical Education Minister. The autonomy status would help provide better service and facilities will be more. Autonomy was necessary to the college in the backdrop of intense competition in the field of medical education. It would also enable maintenance of transparency and efficiency in the administration.
Answering a query on the lack of faculty in the college, he said the State government had not recruited teaching faculty since 1982. There were about 40 per cent vacant posts of various degrees like professors, Assistant lecturers and lecturers, he said. Govt medical colleges He said that the new medical colleges to be established in Mandya, Hassan, Raichur, Bidar and Belgaum were autonomous. He added that government had also proposed to set up a medical college in Shimoga next year. Rao who is also the chairman of Recruitment committee for the medical colleges said that for the first time walk-in interviews was conducted for the post of lecturers and professors to these colleges. CT scan facility K R Hospital will also have a CT scan facility within next two months, he said. Disclosing that post-mortem department will be equipped with digital cameras, he said that images of the unidentified person would be stored in computer. All the operations would be conducted in front of the camera, he added. Declared norm On government doctors practicing at nursing homes, he said that it was a declared norm and doctors were allowed to practice in one private nursing home provided they work after their duty hours. Baseless rumours Some rumours on Cheluvamba hospital publicised in the media were baseless said, Superintendent Dr H R Damayanthi. She was referring to an incident of child’s death where the parents alleged negligence of the doctors in the result of its death. Adverse publicity in the media would only demoralise the doctors and the staff affecting the service of the people, she said. Airconditioned ICU Disclosing that an air-conditioned ICU would be set up at the cost of Rs 20 lakh, she said that it was first of its kind in the State. She said that around hundred saplings were planted around the hospital to improve greenery and provide fresh environment to the patients. The hospital was fully equipped with waste management system and segregation of waste, she added. She also said that rain water harvesting would be taken up in the hospital at a cost of Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 2 lakh.
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Medical college in Bangalore goes into e-teaching mode
Holding aloft the noble tradition of imparting medical education, the Bangalore Medical College has just turned 50. For five decades, the college has produced big names galore in the medical fraternity, built up a reputation for medical practice and achieved much more to add muscle and meaning to the glitter of the golden jubilee year celebrations.
Fifty years ago, when Bangalore had only a medical school, the BMC made its entry into the city. Initially started as a private medical college by the Mysore Medical Education Society, the institution was handed over to the then Government of Mysore. Five decades later, the college is a reputed institution taking in about 150 students each year for the MBBS course, 70 for postgraduate degree and 65 for postgraduate diploma courses.
Superspeciality courses were introduced in the 1970s. Later came the post-doctoral fellowship courses in specialities such as Gastro-enterology and Vitreo-retinal surgery.
The postgraduate courses were started in the Sixties and Seventies. Now affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), the college has so far produced about 7,000 graduates.
Attached to BMC are the Victoria Hospital and the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospitals, the Vanivilas Hospital and the Children's Hospital, the Minto Ophthalmic Hospital, now upgraded into a Regional Institute of Opthalmology, the SDS Sanatorium, the Isolation Hospital and the Venkateshwara ENT Institute besides the Mental Hospital. The last was the early version of the now famous National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS).
This kind of clinical facilities, says an old student, are not easily available to most medical colleges. "This is a veritable goldmine for the diligent student. This also perhaps explains why a large number of graduates from BMC have excelled all over the world."
In the last five decades, the college has produced a rich array of doctors now spread across the globe. K.M. Srinivasa Gowda, former Registrar of RGUHS, an ex-student and the organising secretary of the BMC Golden Jubilee Celebrations Committee, gives us a run through of the who's who of former students.
Who's who
"T.K. Sreepada Rao is a nephrologist who treated Jayaprakash Narayan and M.G. Ramachandran. A. Sampath Kumar is considered to be among the top ten cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons in the country. Udaya Bhanu Surya Prakash is the first non-American to be elected president of the Association of Chest Physicians of America in its more than 100 years history."
There is more: "H. Sudarshan has won the Right Livelihood Award (the alternate Nobel Prize). Gerard Aranha was handpicked to operate on Cardinal Bernardine of Chicago and is now the director of the centre named after him. Dinakar Rai has invented many surgical techniques in venous surgery. Ballal is the Vice-Chancellor of MAHE."
Incidentally, the Director of NIMHANS, the Vice-Chancellor of RGUHS, and the Directors of Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Minto Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Sanjay Gandhi Accident Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases and Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology are all BMC alumni.
In the first few batches, 50 per cent of the students paid a small donation while the other half were selected on the basis of merit by the Government of Mysore. B.K. Narayana Rao served as the college's first Principal.
For the sake of knowledge
Preparations for the college's golden jubilee had begun as early as 2000. Planning the big jubilee, the BMC Alumni Association wanted to bring together the old students on a common platform to renew contacts.
The plans got bigger and culminated in the Association donating a state-of-the-art digital library and seminar hall complex at an approximate cost of Rs. 3 crore. The association's initiative was guided by a strong feeling among the old students to "give something back" to the institution.
# Posted : Monday, January 30, 2006
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Autonomy to KR Hospital: Doctor's clarification
Sir, Apropos the news item regarding autonomy to Mysore Medical College (MMC) and K.R.Hospital (SOM dated Feb. 20), the Karnataka Government Medical College Teachers Association (KGMCTA) would like to clarify certain facts.
Hitherto no medical institute has an IAS Officer as the Director. Always medical teachers are appointed as Directors even in the new Medical Colleges like Mandya, Hassan, Shimoga and Bidar. Medical College teachers are the Directors, not the IAS Officers.
The Teachers Association of MMC and BMC had unanimously decided to appeal to higher authorities to stop the process of giving autonomy to MMC and BMC for following reasons:
1. MMC is the oldest medical college and has been the most prestigious institute to this date in Karnataka and in the country. Thousands of graduates from MMC have achieved great heights in their respective fields in various parts of the world including India. This status will be lost if autonomy comes into existence.
2. Giving autonomy to institutes adds an unwanted burden of creating new posts like Director, CAO, Financial Officer and sub-staff apart from incurring additional expenditure. Instead the present Principal can be given more power to streamline the administration.
3. The Government has abolished certain posts — Divisional Joint Director, Divisional Commissioner, etc.,— due to financial crunch. In such case, why new Director and other officers be appointed?
4. K.R. Hospital, Cheluvamba and P.K. Sanatorium were built by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar with great ambition to serve the poor. Once it becomes an autonomous body, everybody need to pay for medical service.
5. The statement that doctors working in K.R. Hospital are skipping duties to do private practice is far from truth. The Government doctors are allowed to do private practice after working hours.
6. The working hours for the doctors is six hours and not eight hours. If necessary they work for more than the prescribed time. Most of the teachers working for more than two decades will be losing the promotion, if MMC becomes autonomous.
— Dr. C. Rajan, Secretary, KGMCTA
# Posted : Monday, January 02, 2006
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