DY Patil Medical College Under NMC's Radar for Financial Irregularities

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed DY Patil Medical College, Pune to furnish its comments concerning the allegations of financial irregularities and several other deficiencies in the medical college. The complaint received involved several inadequacies in the infrastructure, medical training, residency program and stipend deduction system of the institution.

A post was shared widely on social media platform X (formerly known as twitter) by Dr. Lakshya Mittal, National President of the United Doctors' Front (UDF), on March 7, Friday, pointing out such irregularities at the medical college.

Earlier, the college had responded to the allegations of the complainant stating that he "had collected all the documents and the complaint was false." However, the NMC noted the response to be incomplete as the college had not provided any sort of documentary proof with respect to the payment of the stipend.

In an official letter to the institution’s dean, dated March 4, 2025, the NMC highlighted issues regarding infrastructure, space constraints, finances, stipend payment, medical training, residency and medical care.

NMC found the following issues with the college, based on complaints:

Financial irregularities

The NMC's report details allegations of financial fraud, including maintenance of fake files, imbursement of excessive tution and hostel fees, and submission of fraudulent lecture lists by faculty. The NMC further underscored the false scholarship documents and OT lists maintained at the college.

District residency program complications

As per the statement, the district residency program was found to be non-effective with residents forced to travel to far places like Aundh and Baramati districts in Maharashtra at their own expense, leading to significant logistical and financial burden. Furthermore, deficiencies in medical training and patient care, with inexperienced medical students being assigned to responsibilities beyond their training is alleged to be a serious problem compromising both patient care and resident education of the institution.

Infrastructure and space constraints

Allegations concerning the space constraints included inadequate parking space and congestion of the campus space with multiple institutions such as Ayurvedic College, Nursing College, Homeopathy College, and Physiotherapy College.

Surgical training concerns

The General Surgery department currently has 24 MS seats, with operations conducted in OT 14, 15, and 2, accommodating a total of 72 residents across three years. However, despite the existing constraints, the plan to allocate 30 more seats is expected to further limit resources and adversely affect the training quality.

‌(Input from various sources)

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