SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, May 30: The National Medical Commission (NMC) today approved three postgraduate (PG) seats in the orthopaedic department at Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College Hospital (SNMMCH) Dhanbad from 2024 to 25 academic sessions.
SNMMCH Principal Dr Jyotiranjan Prasad giving this information today said that the institution has in this regard received an email from the medical colleges’ monitoring body of the country i.e. NMC.
SNMMCH had applied for 7 PG seats
Based on faculty strength, SNMMCH had applied for 7 PG seats in orthopaedic but the NMC permitted only three seats.
Earlier, the NMC had allowed six PG seats in the medicine department at NMMCH. The total number of PG seats in the institution became nine.
Though the Dhanbad-based Medical College of Jharkhand government had applied for 42 PG seats in seven departments based on faculty members’ strength, the NMC permitted PG seats in only two subjects- medicine and orthopaedic.
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Surgery dept misses the bus
However, the NMC’s decision to reject the proposal to offer PG courses in the surgery department has surprised all as the institution has a strong bench strength with one professor Dr SK Chourasia, three associate professors- Dr Anil Kumar, Dr Bhakhala, Dr Dinesh Kumar Gandauria and four assistant professors- Dr Vishnu Singh Munda, Dr Aftab Ahmed, Dr Jitendra Ranjan and Dr Rajesh Kumar Singh.
The NMC allows three seats for a professor and two seats for associate professors. On this basis, 9 seats should have been given in the surgery department but the NMC gave nothing.
“At the same time, private medical colleges are allowed to run PG courses without the mandatory faculty strength,” pointed out a doctor requesting anonymity.
The Orthopaedic department has one professor, Dr DP Bhushan, two associate professors, Dr Sunil Kumar, and Dr Vijay Pratap Sinha and two assistant professors, Dr Rahul Kumar Chandan and Dr Pappu Marandi, but has been allowed only three seats.
However, NMMCH nodal officer for NMC affairs Dr Ravi Bhushan said that besides the bench strength seats are also allotted based on clinical load and number of surgery parameters.
