If everything goes as per plan, Mumbai will soon get one more medical college in the western suburbs. It will be housed in the Cooper hospital at Vile Parle, civic sources said. The new college will begin its first academic session this July, with 150 MBBS seats.
If everything goes as per plan, Mumbai will soon get one more medical college in the western suburbs. It will be housed in the Cooper hospital at Vile Parle, civic sources said. The new college will begin its first academic session this July, with 150 MBBS seats.
In April, a committee from the Medical Council of India will gauge if Cooper hospital can adequately support the proposed medical college. Civic sources expect this to be a mere formality.
Once the MCI committee gives its green signal to the college, the BMC will write back to MCI, suggesting a name for the college as decided by the BMC.
The college will be named after the Shiv Sena's founder. Its name will be the Late Balasaheb Thackeray Medical College.
Currently, there are three functional medical colleges run by the BMC – Topiwala Medical National College with the Nair Hospital at Mumbai Central; Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College with KEM Hospital in Parel; and Lokmanya Tilak Medical College with Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion.
"We are all set for the inspection, which is expected in the month of April. We fulfil all criteria as per MCI norms, now we are just waiting for the inspection. Once it is done, we are hoping to open the college in the upcoming academic session,"said Sanjay Deshmukh, additional commissioner, (health) with BMC.
Dr Suhasini Nagda, BMC's director of major hospitals, said, "As per the need of MCI we have already recruited teaching and non-teaching staff for the medical college. We have filled 54 teaching posts ranging from professor, associate professor and lecturer, and also set up three laboratories. We have also filled up the post of dean and medical superintendent. The dean will be Dr Ramesh Chaturvedi, who previously headed the preventive and social medicine department with Sion hospital."
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