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Health Minister K. Muraleedharan has assured that precedence volition beryllium fixed to issuing the State government’s Essentiality Certificate required to upgrade Asramam ESI Model and Super Speciality Hospital into a Medical College.
N. K. Premachandran, MP, had antecedently accused the State Health Department of sabotaging the ₹600-crore Centrally funded task by withholding the important certificate.
“The Minister has promised to fast-track and prioritize the issuance of the mandatory Essentiality Certificate from the State government,” said the MP aft submitting a ceremonial memorandum for the same.
He pointed retired that the ESI Corporation had initiated steps for the upgrade, aiming to commencement the aesculapian assemblage during the 2026–27 world year
. According to Mr. Premachandran, the State authorities had purposely delayed taking a determination connected the record until the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) archetypal exertion deadline expired.
“After the NMC extended the deadline I had a treatment with the Chief Minister, but adjacent aft that determination was nary progress. It was an anti-labour determination that harmed workers and their children,” helium said.
However, the erstwhile State medication had powerfully defended its caution, pointing to terrible infrastructural deficits astatine the facility. According to authoritative reports, the Director of Medical Education (DME) had conducted an inspection astatine the infirmary connected January 19 nether instructions from the State government.
The inspection revealed that isolated from the impermanent assignment of a Dean from the Chennai ESI Hospital, the installation lacked virtually each structural requirements mandated by the National Medical Commission. The DME’s study highlighted that determination were nary capable classrooms, nary administrative block, nary basal amenities, and perfectly nary recruitment of indispensable teaching oregon non-teaching staff.
The erstwhile medication maintained that it was consenting to assistance permission, but lone aft the ESI Corporation actively established the required facilities. The officials said the State authorities had formally communicated these deficiencies to the infirmary superintendent, informing that granting an Essentiality Certificate nether specified conditions would backfire.
They argued that enrolling students without basal infrastructure would inevitably pb to the National Medical Commission canceling the college’s accreditation altogether.
