I read your news item ‘Medical Council of India is corrupt, says health minister’ with great interest. With more than twenty-five years of teaching experience in both Government and private medical colleges, I am not surprised by the news item.
During my long association with medical education, I have seen the standard of medical education deteriorating. Getting a job in a medical college as a faculty member was like a dream come true in my time, as there was neither the culture of corporate hospital nor private medical colleges. Things have now changed. Having joined the medical college, it is still a secondary job for majority of the faculties. The primary concern is private practice. The devotion and dedication of teaching is somewhat lacking. The MCI inspection for any college is like an event management. It has opened up many job opportunities for people who arrange everything from faculties to furniture. Even today the Honourable health minister, Dr. Harshvardhan, has given a statement in Times of India, Delhi edition, regarding ‘racket’ of docs-lab nexus. Doctors as well as the common man are aware of the prevailing corruption not only in MCI but also in other fields of health care sector. It is time that the ‘aware’ government make stringent laws to heal the health services.
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I read your news item ‘Medical Council of India is corrupt, says health minister’ with great interest. With more than twenty-five years of teaching experience in both Government and private medical colleges, I am not surprised by the news item.
During my long association with medical education, I have seen the standard of medical education deteriorating. Getting a job in a medical college as a faculty member was like a dream come true in my time, as there was neither the culture of corporate hospital nor private medical colleges. Things have now changed. Having joined the medical college, it is still a secondary job for majority of the faculties. The primary concern is private practice. The devotion and dedication of teaching is somewhat lacking. The MCI inspection for any college is like an event management. It has opened up many job opportunities for people who arrange everything from faculties to furniture. Even today the Honourable health minister, Dr. Harshvardhan, has given a statement in Times of India, Delhi edition, regarding ‘racket’ of docs-lab nexus. Doctors as well as the common man are aware of the prevailing corruption not only in MCI but also in other fields of health care sector. It is time that the ‘aware’ government make stringent laws to heal the health services.
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