3 medical colleges to file writ petition against NMC

With the pressure exerted by the students and members of the Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA), the management of the three medical colleges, of which the under-graduate and postgraduate courses were cancelled, are going to file a writ petition against the National Medical Council for issuing cancellation orders after completing the process of counselling.

The NMC, after conducting surprise inspections in the month of March, issued cancellation of admission orders on May 19 to three medical colleges, which include MNR Medical College and Hospital of Sangareddy district, Mahavir Institute of Medical Sciences, Vikarabad and TRR Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.

The NMC in its report mentioned that the teaching hospitals did not have capacity to bear the load of the patients and there was no proper infrastructure, staff and lab facilities.

After the decision of the NMC, as many as 600 medical students' future was at stake and they stopped providing medical services in the respective three teaching medical hospitals of the colleges.

A PG medical student speaking to Deccan Chronicle under the condition of anonymous said that after learning that these three medical colleges had got permission from the National Medical Council to take admissions, the students participated in the counselling conducted by the Kaloji Narayana Rao Health University and got admissions into various MBBS and MD courses.

Now with the sudden decision taken by the NMC, neither the university officials nor the managements of the respective colleges are responding to the issue and are playing with the lives of students.

They are trying to settle the issue by assuring the students that they are going to file the writ petition against the National Medical Council, he alleged.