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Cooperative Medical College gets recognition

KOCHI: The Cooperative Medical College, the only quasi-Government medical college in the city, has received a letter from the Union Ministry of Health granting recognition to the College.

This will help the college, which was founded in 2000, to further develop its facilities.

The alumni of the college will also benefit from this. Earlier they were not allowed to join other universities for post-graduation.

While the controversies regarding shortage of staff and under-utilisation of facilities in the college abound, the college authorities have come up with the recognition letter at a time when admissions to all the professional colleges are starting. “Admissions to the college were underway as the Medical Council had already recommended recognition to the college,” said Dr. the principal Kunjamma George.

“The Union Ministry’s letter was a formality. It was important that the college got recognition for five years on the trot to get a permanent recognition.” The college had failed the inspection conducted by the Medical Council of India in the third and fourth year as no facilities had come up and the college was working in temporary classes. A hospital of its own was also yet to come up at that time. Even when medical college building was constructed later, the functions of the hospital were not full-fledged. Both the college and the hospital started functioning together in 2004. But now the college is facing shortage of staff. While this is a problem faced by many new medical colleges, the doctors and faculty believe that the government should pay more to make the jobs attractive.

Now that the medical college hospital has all the facilities, they remain underutilised due to shortage of doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and technicians. With the appointment of a new full-time principal and providing administrative charge as the Director of Cooperative Academy of Profession Education to an IAS officer, the situation seems to have improved.

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