Government withdraws proposal to shift MBBS students

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Jhajjar, August 27

In a setback to protesting MBBS students of World College here, the Department of Medical and Research, Haryana, has withdrawn the proposal of shifting them to other colleges.

The department said 98 of 148 students were studying in World College and there was no deficiency of infrastructure and faculty in view of facts and as evident from the inspection conducted by the Board of Governors, Medical Council of India, on March 19.

In a communiqué sent to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare by Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Medical and Research, Haryana, it is stated that it appears from the inspection report that the college meets the minimum requirement of faculty for 150 students.

Moreover, the government has earmarked 250 beds of the college for the isolation of Covid patients from Mahendragarh, Charkhi Dadri, Rewari and Gurugram districts.

“The government has attached the Jhajjar Civil Hospital as an associate teaching hospital with World College under an MoU and in turn, the college shall provide organisational support for programmes of the Health Department. So, the students should be allowed to continue and complete their course in World College,” the communiqué adds.