Chandigarh: Strongly opposing the move by Punjab’s Medical Education Minister Anil Joshi to give a clean chit to doctors who were indulging in the unethical practice of being “ghost teachers” in various medical colleges at the same time, the Punjab Medical Council (PMC) on Tuesday said it will not stall proceedings against them.
In a strongly-worded letter to Joshi on Tuesday, PMC president Dr G S Grewal said that he and the PMC were shocked and anguished over the clean chit by the minister and asking the PMC to stop the ongoing probe against the delinquent doctors.
Expressing strong reservation over the minister’s interference, Dr Grewal said that the PMC was a statutory body and will not stall its proceedings against the ghost doctors.
“The Registrar-PMC is therefore duty bound to call a meeting of the committee to look and inquire into the issue of ghost doctors on September 18, 2015, at 11 a.m. in the PMC office and send notices to all ghost doctors registered under PMC without any exception,” he said in his letter.
Dr Grewal claimed that the minister had not been informed about the issue properly.
The PMC, during its inspection of four private medical colleges located in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh earlier this year, had found 436 ‘ghost teachers’ on the rolls of the medical colleges.
MCI Inspectors are from Govt setups thus they are not in capacity to inspect med college of these private players. Many a times faculties are brought on the day of inspection and poor MCI inspector accept them as full time teacher with false declaration they provide.