Staff Reporter :
The Health Ministry has suspended all activities of three private medical colleges on the charge of violation of medical rules and regulations.
The colleges are Northern Medical College in Rangpur, City Medical College at Gazipur and Nightingale Medical College at Ashulia, Dhaka.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said it on Sunday after meeting on private medical colleges in the conference room of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
The students of those medical colleges could, however, continue their education in other private medical colleges running under nearby universities.
Besides, the ministry suspended the admission process for 2016-17 years of Southern Medical College in Chittagong for violating the rules. Besides, seat capacity of BGC Medical College was reduced from 125 to 75 for the same reason.
Mohammad Nasim said, the ministry would strictly monitor the activities of medical colleges. “No institute will be allowed to break rules and regulations. If the medical colleges fail to uphold the standard of education, it could not produce good physicians. We never permit any medical college to distribute certificates only. The government will monitor closely the educational quality of the medical colleges.”
Mohammad Nasim, who chaired the meeting, instructed the surveillance committee to submit inspection reports of all the 68 private medical colleges within next three months.
Health Minister also said that in future, permission, renewal and increase of seats will be finalized on the basis of the separate inspection reports carried by the health ministry, universities, and Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique, Additional Secretary of Health Ministry Biman Kumar Saha, Director General of Health Department Professor Dr. Deen Muhammad Nurul Haque, BMDC President Professor Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah and the Deans of Medical Science Faculties of Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Syhet Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, and the higher officials of the ministry and health department, were present in the meeting.
