MCI Inspection: Vice Chancellor Registration Cancelled for 3 years
Chandigarh: On recommendations of the Medical Council of India, the Punjab Medical Council has cancelled the
registration of the Vice Chancellor of Adesh University, Bathinda on account of giving false information to the Medical
Council of India during the inspection of Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences.
Chandigarh:
Tribune reports Dr GPI Singh was indicted in an inquiry conducted by the Ethics Committee of the MCI for submitting
wrong information. The case according to the daily, goes back to year 2011, when the doctor was the Principal of
Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda. As per the complaint against him, he furnished false
information during an MCI inspection, whereby it was claimed that on Dr Muktanjali Arya was associated as a fulltime
faculty of Microbiology at the medical college. However, a whistleblower in the complaint alleged that she was
working with a private hospital in Ludhiana.
The MCI Ethics committee found the charges to be true, following which it ordered the registration of the doctor be
cancelled for a period of three years
It is reported that while the said decision was taken around One and a half years ago, it was only recently
communicated to the State Medical Council where the doctor is registered, following which the council took out the
order of the cancellation of registration. Dr HS Gill, Chancellor, Adesh University, informed the Tribun as per the
provisions, they had already appealed to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to review the penalty
imposed by the MCI
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