Medical College Dean Suspended on grounds of Misleading Govt

Mumbai: Authorities at the Medical Education Department recently suspended the acting dean of the government-run Kolhapur Medical College on grounds of providing misleading information to the government. This comes in follow-up to the case where certain medical teachers of the college were found rampantly engaging in private practice

 

Medical Dialogues team earlier reported that the Medical Education Department, Maharashtra on a

tip-off visited various private hospitals in the area using fake names and found 6 medical teachers attached to Kolhapur Medical College practising in private hospitals during their duty hours. Taking action on the matter, the department has issued a show-cause notice to the dean and was considering the deregistration of the teachers.

“Our contention is that while more than half a dozen doctors were not available in the college and were involved in private practice, the dean was in the dark. Further, the dean submitted that no teacher is involved in private practice. We have submitted all relevant documents to him,” a senior official at Medical Education Department had stated