What about the real issues, boss?

WHETHER KGMU bosses would focus on resolving real academic issues or they would continue to revolve around off-campus issues during important meetings? Poor academics, dilapidating buildings, misuse of funds and obsolete working systems have become a part of campus. But the focus of discussions at the high-level meetings remains on off-campus activities like private practice and others.

WHETHER KGMU bosses would focus on resolving real academic issues or they would continue to revolve around off-campus issues during important meetings?
Poor academics, dilapidating buildings, misuse of funds and obsolete working systems have become a part of campus. But the focus of discussions at the high-level meetings remains on off-campus activities like private practice and others.

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Senior faculty members here feel as most of the doctors live outside campus, catching them doing private practice would require one to run around the town. Thus a better way is to focus on immediate issues and upgrade academic status.

For years, the medical varsity is waiting for an incinerator installed for disposing cadaver piously. In the absence of an incinerator, doctors are forced to dispose of bodies by acid treatment, which is an inhuman option.

Even cadaver count is short of requirement, dissection of which is essential in the first year of MBBS. This is because the varsity pays Rs 160 for each cadaver brought here while private colleges pay manifold for one cadaver.

The Hospital Information System (HIS) is still awaited. This was meant to improve system of education as well as clinical services on campus by linking various departments, centenary hospital and entire faculty with a network of 509 computers.

Soon after the technical bid was opened HIS file went into controversy of financial matter alleging the L-1 (Lowest one) formula adopted to select bidder actually favoured one among four.

Uncontrolled expenditure and misuse of funds too need attention. A huge amount is spent on repair of building and even then it leaks every year during monsoon. Where does the money go then if it is not used on roof repairs?
Some equipment has not functioned for years but the annual maintenance contract is paid along with repair cost. Purchase process here is so lengthy that an equipment takes months to get installed.

The Anatomy Department has a 100-year-old dilapidating building for students. Teaching is done after keeping wooden logs to support rooftop. Will it ever get a proper repair?

The varsity is lacking a Nephrology Department, which is necessary for a proper functioning of Urology Department and also for the proposed project of cadaver transplant. Will this department ever come up?

Teachers’ strength is short against MCI norms. Several departments are yet to be recognised by the MCI, as visit by their experts is pending.

And if these reasons for on campus attention were less, there are over 250 cases pending in the legal section. Most of these are intra-departmental issues.
There is a lot to be explored, but will the new vice chancellor Prof Hari Gautam look into them? “If teachers are made to perform the jobs as teacher and doctor on the campus, they would not have time for private practice,” commented a senior faculty.