Koraput: A three-member Medical Council of India (MCI) team conducted an inspection of the Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital here on Friday to ascertain if it had the statutory infrastructure required for admitting the second batch of students for the 2018-19 academic session.
Besides holding discussions with the dean, superintendent and other officials, the team members - Gangadhar Gouda and Darabi Kumar Jadhav from Karnataka and Jasmin Diwan from Gujarat - checked the mandatory infrastructure required for the approval.
An official said the team checked whether the hospital complex, classrooms, library, out-patient and in-patient departments, intensive care units, boys and girls' hostels, specialty clinics, laboratory and administrative buildings were sufficient for admitting second-year classes. The college's intake capacity is 100 students in its second year.
"The team made a thorough check ascertain whether the available infrastructure meets the MCI guidelines to admit its second batch," said dean Krushna Chandra Biswal.
The team made physical verification of staff members, including professors, associate professors and assistant professors, junior and senior resident doctors, apart from verifying all documents and checking the five-bed intensive care unit of the medicine, surgical, coronary and paediatric departments.
"The college and hospital has been fully equipped according to the MCI guidelines, and we have sufficient infrastructure ready to admit students. The team has given positive indications, and we are hopeful that there will be no problem in getting permission for admitting students," said Biswal.
The dean said the MCI team, during its earlier visit, had objected to around 100 points, including staff member positions, and had asked for rectification.
"We have already sorted out around 80 objections raised by the MCI and those remaining will be done shortly," said Biswal.
Patients of Koraput, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Malkangiri and certain areas of neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh depend on the medical college, constructed on 52 acres adjacent to the district headquarters hospital.