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    On the trail of ghost faculty in private medical colleges

    Shimona Kanwar, TNN | Apr 5, 2015, 04.39AM IST


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    With a long line of men and women waiting for a trans plant at his Ludhiana hair clinic, Dr
    P K Ahluwalia (name changed) is a busy man. But some 175 km away, in Solan, he is also
    supposedly teaching medicine at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College Hospital.
    "Dr Ahluwalia," in fact, exists only on paper on the faculty of the college, a figure to be
    paraded during inspections by the Medical Council of India (MCI). A minimum number of
    trained faculty is mandatory for a medical college to be recognized by the MCI and to ensure
    this, ghost doctors are temporarily hired. Some of them had actually joined the college and
    quit but their names retained on the rolls.
    The Punjab Medical Council (PMC) recently found out that over 400 such fake teachers
    were enrolled as full-time faculty in four private medical colleges across Punjab, Haryana
    and Himachal Pradesh. What is even more shocking is that this racket affects the most
    crucial departments of these institutions -anatomy, physiology and medicine.
    At the Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College in Solan, started in 2013, of the current
    faculty of 155, 74 were ghost members. The faculty in the ENT (ear, nose, throat), forensic
    medicine and dermatology departments exists only on paper. The hospital's other branch at
    Ambala, established in 2008, has an annual intake of 150 students. It needs a minimum of
    108 faculty members as per MCI norms; it has an impressive 145. But here is how it works.

    "The college has been showing doc ors as on-paper faculty right from its inception in 2008.
    They would then add a few new names along with some of the old ones who would make an
    appearance for the inspection after which they would disappear. This college alone had 240
    ghost faculty members over the years," explains Dr GS Grewal, president of the PMC, which
    has initiated action against all these fake members.
    The other institutions being investigated followed similar practices (see box). The PMC has
    issued notices to 70 such doctors in Solan and the remaining shall be served notices soon.
    Every year, lakhs of MBBS aspirants from across Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh
    compete for about 2,445 seats. Of these, 1,395 come from private medical colleges and each
    student pays well over Rs 50 lakh to grab a seat. (There are 381 medical colleges in the
    country -both government and private -with an annual intake of over 50,000 students.) An
    article published last year in the International Journal of Anatomy and Research estimates
    that the shortage of teaching faculty in India varies between 20% and 65% among different
    specialties.
    When STOI tracked down some of these ghost doctors, most maintained that they had
    resigned from the medical college "this year". Interestingly, they "quit"after the MCI
    inspection. "I re signed from the college some time back. I joined it because my son was
    doing his MBBS in the same city. The aim was to help him while he was studying there,"
    says one "ghost" doctor.
    Dr Grewal also points out that many of these doctors, in violation of the law, practise or sign
    up for faculty outside of the state where they are registered. He stumbled on the racket when
    he spotted photos of some of these doctors on Facebook at locations where they couldn't
    possibly be present. "I found it strange that some of these doctors were posting photos from
    resorts when it wasn't vacation time. That was when I started matching the faculty list
    mentioned on the MCI website with that of the colleges. This revealed discrepancies. After

    we exposed them, some of these colleges removed the faculty page," he says.
    During a recent convocation address at Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Dr Raj
    Bahadur, the vice-chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS),
    Faridkot, had spoken out against the questionable ethics of some in the medical profession.
    He alleged: "I was also offered Rs 4 lakh for a day to appear as a doctor at the Fathima
    Institute of Medical Sciences, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh because an MCI inspection was on
    that day."
    (The ghost doctors have not been named as the probe is still on)

    MCI for RFID Tags to Exorcise Ghost Faculty


    By Prabhat Nair
    Published: 13th April 2015 06:00 AM
    Last Updated: 13th April 2015 02:29 AM
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    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Medical Council of India stressing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags on
    the teaching staff to track them, the medical colleges in the government and private sector in the state will find it
    hard to recruit ghost faculty members.
    Ghost lecturers, as the name suggests, are those who do not really exist but are showcased on the college payroll
    at the time of annual inspections. Many medical colleges resort to such practices to get approval from the MCI for
    increasing the number of seats.
    Organisations like the IMA and the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers Association have welcomed the MCI
    move to adopt new technologies including biometric systems in colleges, but pointed out that an overall revamp of
    the medical education system was the need of the hour.
    The MCI has given instructions to all medical colleges to immediately set up the RFID system. Through the system,
    the details of the attendance of doctors can be monitored remotely from Delhi. The new guidelines gain
    significance in the wake of concerns raised by the medical fraternity with respect to the redeployment of doctors
    to the two colleges at Idukki and Manjeri.
    IMA president A Marthanda Pillai cautioned that problems could crop up if more stringent measures are brought in.
    He said an accreditation process for medical colleges should be there on the lines of the one in place for other
    colleges.

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