‘Scary picture for future doctors’: Medicos allege Tonk Medical College has no rooms for classes, interviews

The medical community has raised serious concerns regarding the lack of basic infrastructure at the newly established Tonk Medical College in Rajasthan. Doctors have alleged that there are no classrooms and faculty interviews are being held in iron containers, questioning how the National Medical Commission (NMC) approved MBBS seats at the medical college.

Sharing the ground reality of the medical college, medicos alleged that interviews were held in an iron railway container with no network facility. “Today, interviews were held for assistant professors in several departments, primarily for gynecology, ENT, psychiatry, pediatrics, forensics, pathology, and anesthesia. The medical college lacked any on-ground facilities; not even a single room in the college building was operational for conducting interviews. Interviews were conducted in temporary cabins built in iron containers,” a medical officer told Careers360, on the condition of anonymity.

All the doctors were allegedly left surprised to be interviewing at a college that lacked a single room or any other facilities.

Raising questions on MBBS admissions at the college, the doctors asked, “It is quite surprising that the allotment of MBBS female students has also begun today at Tonk Medical College, but where there is not a single room in the entire college, how will doctors study? Will MBBS classes also be conducted in these iron containers?”

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“When basic facilities like buildings, washrooms, offices etc. are not even built, what will the MBBS students who have been admitted to the college do?,” the medicos asked and remarked that it is a very scary picture portraying a grim future for the patients and the aspiring doctors.

NMC approval

Former member of the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA), Rohan Krishnan termed it the “dying healthcare of the country”. Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda, health ministry, and the National Medical Commission, he said in a post on X, “This is the world class building of Tonk Medical College, Rajasthan. A state of the art medical college, granted permission to run an MBBS course from this year itself! NMC should at least open their eyes and inspect a few colleges rather than doing online inspections all the time. JP Nadda has zero time for the ministry. NMC stands as the pillar of corruption and ignorance in the medical community.”

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“If we get time from who is eating non veg and veg in Navratri, we can see the less important issues like the dying healthcare structure of the country!,” he remarked.

The doctors argued that NMC has granted recognition to the buildings without staff, buildings, teachers, electricity and water, without even conducting a physical inspection and the admission process for MBBS students has also started from today. They asked what will be the quality of doctors after doing MBBS from such a college and remarked how dangerous it is for the society.