KANNUR: Now, Pariyaram Medical College faces the prospect of losing its recognition as the Medical Council of India (MCI) has sought explanation from the Kerala Cooperative Hospital Complex and Centre for Advanced Medical Services Ltd, the governing body of the institution, for running the medical college without possessing land of its own.
And in the letter to the Pariyaram MC principal dated September 7, the Council sought an explanation from him within 10 days backed by proper documents. Along with it a notice was served on the Dean of the Medical University.
In fact, the MCI move came on a complaint from the ‘Pariyaram Medical College Sarkar Ettedukkuka Prakshobha Samithi’, which alleged that the Cooperative Society overseeing the functioning of the medical college did not the possess the title deed of the land as it was still with the government. And this meant that the cooperative society had failed to meet the primary condition that an institution can run a medical college only on land which belonged to it.
According to the complaint lodged by D Surendranath, convener of the Samithi, veteran freedom fighter C Samuel Aaron had gifted 300 acre of the said property to the Madras Provincial Welfare Fund Society for setting up a TB sanitarium. It was meant to provide free treatment to TB patients. However, the Society later requested the government to takeover the institution as they found it pretty difficult to manage the show.
At this, the then government took over the institution in 1957, with all its assets and liabilities. Later, the government gave a part of the land to the Cooperative Medical College. However, when the government decided to close down the TB sanitarium and transfer the land, a few persons approached the High Court and got the government order to assign part of the land to the Cooperative Society quashed.
The court, however, held that the government was free to run the medical college and the super speciality hospital, without stopping the functioning of the TB sanitorium, Though the government was forced to take over the college, owing to various political reasons it handed over the operations of the institution to the Society.
