MCI team visits MKCG Medical College

BERHAMPUR: A three-member team of the Medical Council of India (MCI) visited the MKCG Medical College and Hospital on Monday to inspect infrastructure facilities for admitting 150 students to the under-graduate course including MBBS. This was the second MCI team visited to the medical college and hospital, the only referral hospital in southern Orissa, in the last ten days. The earlier team examined infrastructure facilities for the proposed increase of seats in some of the departments at the post-graduate level. The present team went round different sections of the college including the classrooms, library and laboratories to inspect the available facilities. They also held a meeting with the medical college and hospital authorities including the principal, superintendent and senior faculty members, about the future development-plan of the institute.Although the team members did not spellout anything, the medical college authorities were confident of getting the MCI nod this time to admit 150 students to the undergraduate courses. "We have improved our infrastructure this time and we are confident the MCI will allow us to continue to intake 150 students like the previous years," said a senior professor of the medical college. 

Source: Times of India