Centre issues LoP to Baripada MCH
BHUBANESWAR: The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has issued Letter of Permission (LoP) to Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical College and Hospital (PRMMCH) at Baripada with some conditions as laid down by the Supreme Court mandated oversight committee.
The Ministry has asked the State Government to submit an undertaking within 15 days affirming fulfillment of all discrepancies and statements made in the compliance report submitted to the Medical Council of India (MCI).
Thereafter, the Ministry will direct an inspection at anytime during the current academic session to verify the compliance submitted by the medical college. In default of the conditions and if the compliance is found incomplete, the college will be debarred from fresh intake of students for two years commencing 2018-19.
A Health Department official said the undertaking has been submitted on May 31 soon after the apex court mandated oversight committee approved the grant of LoP. "Required faculties have been appointed and construction of the medical college is near completion," he added.
However, the PRMMCH has been accorded permission for one year initially for an annual intake of 100 MBBS students and it will be renewed on yearly basis. The process of renewal will continue till such time the infrastructure and expansion of hospital facilities are completed as per norms of MCI.
On May 13, the Supreme Court mandated oversight committee had approved the grant of LoP after Health Secretary Dr Pramod Kumar Meherda wrote a letter to the Secretary of the panel seeking his intervention into the delay in grant of permission.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had laid the foundation stone for the medical college in 2015. Built in an area of 21 acres at Rangamatia, it will cater to the needs of people in Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts, besides those from the bordering areas of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.