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The connection to motorboat MBBS admissions astatine the Asramam ESI Model and Super Speciality Hospital for the 2026-27 world twelvemonth has ignited a governmental enactment with N.K. Premachandran, MP, accusing the State Health section of sabotaging the ₹600-crore Centrally funded task by withholding the mandatory Essentiality Certificate.
He alleged present connected Friday that the denial is simply a “mysterious determination intended to support the commercialized interests of a CPI(M)-controlled backstage infirmary successful the region.”
Mr. Premachandran claimed that contempt the ESI Corporation (ESIC) submitting an exertion connected January 9, 2026, the State authorities sat connected the record until the precise past moment. Even aft the National Medical Commission (NMC) extended the deadline to February 3 and the Director General of the ESIC provided a ceremonial undertaking to rectify each infrastructure deficiencies earlier the assemblage commenced operations, the Health Minister reportedly refused to assistance the certificate. The MP termed this a “betrayal of the moving class,” peculiarly cashew workers, whose children would person benefited from affordable aesculapian education.
Countering the allegations, CPI(M) Kollam territory acting caput S. Jayamohan tagged the claims arsenic “bizarre and politically motivated.”
“It was astir 1 twelvemonth agone that the ESI Corporation Board decided to commencement 10 ESI Medical Colleges, which included the Asramam ESI hospital. However, until now, nary actions person been taken successful this respect by either the Central authorities oregon the ESI,” helium said. He said that an inspection conducted by the Director of Medical Education connected January 19 revealed a near-total deficiency of infrastructure astatine the Asramam hospital. He added that determination were nary classrooms, administrative blocks, oregon capable module appointments required by NMC norms. “Granting a certificate to an instauration with zero facilities would pb to an contiguous cancellation of designation by the NMC, thereby jeopardising the aboriginal of prospective students,” helium said.
Mr. Jayamohan besides cited a 2014 missive from the past ESIC Director General suggesting that the State authorities instrumentality implicit the infirmary arsenic the Centre was incapable to tally it. He said the allegation was conscionable a ploy to divert attraction from the Centre’s nonaccomplishment to assistance an All India Institute of Medical Sciences to Kerala and the neglect of Kollam successful the Union Budget.
