Hyderabad: In fact, after the MCI's team inspected the said college's premises early this year, they compiled a list of 34 violations, including that of the under-construction 'hospital building'. No indoor facilities are available and also there are no beds in any ward.

The same was the case with Surabhi Educational Society as its so called hospital premises in Siddipet infuriated the MCI to seek a similar explanation from the state government. It made a few damning observations when its inspection team visited the site early this year, saying that, "The college under consideration for Letter Of Permission (LOP) for 150 MBBS seats is still under construction, including hospital building staff quarters, resident quarters and student hostel."

They further observed in their report ( TOI has a copy) that "there were no patients in any of the wards of the hospital, including casualty and waiting area near the OP was found empty. There was only one doctor with MBBS qualification claiming to be the RMO of the hospital by name Dr Purushotham Reddy at the time of verification."
"The Telangana government gave these ECs secretly by issuing confidential government orders (GOs) to these new applicants as most of them were promoted by politicians. However, they fell foul of the MCI rules," said one of the promoters of these colleges, on condition of anonymity.


The MCI rules clearly state that any applicant for new medical college should have been running a 300-bed hospital for at least three years, with at least 80% occupancy rate in Out Patient and In Patient blocks. It should have all the tax records, PAN cards of employees and medical records of patients. Not surprisingly, many like Dr N Janardhan Reddy, former health minister, smelt a rat in the way the ECs were issued to these applicants in the first place.
"Nobody knows when these ECs were given to the applicants as neither the place was notified, nor were other applicants given a fair chance to seek ECs from the state to set up new medical college," he said.


While questioning lack of transparency in the entire issue, Janardhan Reddy sought to know on what basis the TRS government decided to grant ECs to set up three private medical colleges in just one district (Medak).