By Sudha Nambudiri, TNN | Jan 25, 2013, 05.22 AM IST
KOCHI: The Indian Dental Association (IDA) has suggested that they would like to play a proactive role in the academic matters of the Dental Council of India following the arrest of DCI members Dr Murukesan and Dr Gunaseelan by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of corruption.
In a letter to the Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the IDA national vice-president, Dr M Raveendranath said that the DCI had become corrupt with the private stakeholders coming into the dental education scenario.
"There are unethical interests in sanctioning new dental colleges and PG and UG seats. Most of the private colleges are interested only in profit and that too at the cost of social responsibility. They go to any extent and collude with anybody to get their due share. But they are relegating the fact that dentists without proper education and training are a social threat and affect public health. Most of the dental colleges are without the stipulated infrastructure and with abysmally low patient turnout. Staff patterns are maintained only on register of inspection days and on other days it is compensated with underpaid fresh graduates. At the same time, the well run government dental colleges are struggling to get what they deserve, to run the institution well," Dr Ravindranath told TOI.
Recently, the application for new government dental colleges at Thrissur and Alappuzha were rejected by DCI. Moulana Azad Dental College with state of the art facilities and 1,500 patients a day at Delhi is still admitting only 40 students a year and that is the ideal strength to give maximum attention and clinical training to students."We have suggested that social auditing is the only solution for this menace to break the unholy alliance between stakeholders," he said.
"IDA is the one and only registered organization working among dentists and can take up wide range of activities related to dentistry," said Dr Ravindranath.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Indian-Dental-Association-wants-to-play-proactive-role-in-academic-matters/articleshow/18176042.cms
KOCHI: The Indian Dental Association (IDA) has suggested that they would like to play a proactive role in the academic matters of the Dental Council of India following the arrest of DCI members Dr Murukesan and Dr Gunaseelan by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of corruption.
In a letter to the Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the IDA national vice-president, Dr M Raveendranath said that the DCI had become corrupt with the private stakeholders coming into the dental education scenario.
"There are unethical interests in sanctioning new dental colleges and PG and UG seats. Most of the private colleges are interested only in profit and that too at the cost of social responsibility. They go to any extent and collude with anybody to get their due share. But they are relegating the fact that dentists without proper education and training are a social threat and affect public health. Most of the dental colleges are without the stipulated infrastructure and with abysmally low patient turnout. Staff patterns are maintained only on register of inspection days and on other days it is compensated with underpaid fresh graduates. At the same time, the well run government dental colleges are struggling to get what they deserve, to run the institution well," Dr Ravindranath told TOI.
Recently, the application for new government dental colleges at Thrissur and Alappuzha were rejected by DCI. Moulana Azad Dental College with state of the art facilities and 1,500 patients a day at Delhi is still admitting only 40 students a year and that is the ideal strength to give maximum attention and clinical training to students."We have suggested that social auditing is the only solution for this menace to break the unholy alliance between stakeholders," he said.
"IDA is the one and only registered organization working among dentists and can take up wide range of activities related to dentistry," said Dr Ravindranath.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Indian-Dental-Association-wants-to-play-proactive-role-in-academic-matters/articleshow/18176042.cms
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