New Delhi: Medical Council of India (MCI) is all to set the seize recognition from eight medical colleges including five run by the Madhya Pradesh government. It was reported in the parliament by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. He also informed the Lok Sabha that of the eight colleges, six are government medical colleges, five in Madhya Pradesh and one in Uttar Pradesh, are facing action for not complying with the MCI norms.
MGM Medical College (Indore), Shyam Shah Medical College (Rewa), Gandhi Medical College (Bhopal), Gajra Raja Medical College (Gwalior), Netaji Subhash Chandra Medical College (Jabalpur) and BRD Medical College (Gorakhpur) are the state colleges. The rest two are private colleges - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College in Karnataka and Bhausaheb Deshmukh Memorial Medical College in Maharashtra.
MCI carries out periodic inspection of the medical colleges in order to maintain the standard of medical education and health services in the country. The medical colleges which are found not meeting the requirement as per the MCI regulations are recommended to central government for withdrawal of recognition.
