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60 pc of Maharashtra medical colleges below par

Maharashtra Health Minister Doulatrao Aher criticised the medical infrastructure and facilities available in the state's medical colleges, claiming they were far below standard and that over 60 per cent of them were below standard.

He said medical education today completely ignored merit and had become a lucrative business to line the pockets of the managements, he said.

He was speaking at the maiden session of an association of practitioner's of ayurvedic medicine.

Aher said the state administration had recently surveyed the facilities and infrastructure available at medical colleges in the state. Only 20 per cent of these institutions were run according to norms and specifications laid down by the Indian Medical Council Aher said. Only 20 per cent of medical colleges fell even in the just acceptable B category. The remaining 60 per cent belong to C and D category, he said.

In a warning to these institutions, Dr Aher said an administrative inquiry would be set up if such medical colleges continued to neglect the norms and specification laid down by IMC, if they discriminated against merit or if they didn't provide adequate facilities and infrastructure.

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