Organogram of recruitment lingers for govt approval
The organogram, proposing recruitment of 420 employees, for Patuakhali Medical College is still waiting approval from the ministry concerned, hampering academic activities of 250 students of five batches.
Due to the delay, the institution is facing serious crisis of teachers and it does not even have teachers in three out of eight basic subjects.
Although the college requires at least 22 teachers to run its tutorial and practical classes, only seven teachers are currently serving there.
On January 10, 2014, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated Patuakhali Medical College on the premises of 250-bed Patuakhali General Hospital.
Academic and administrative activities of the medical college have been running at the hospital's CCU building.
“We placed an organogram, seeking approval to recruit 420 employees, to the authorities concerned on a number of occasions, but they sent it back on various grounds,” Principal of the medical college Prof Dr Mahmudur Rahman said, adding that the last time he placed the organogram was in June this year and is still waiting for a reply.
Of the 420 proposed posts, 205 posts are Class I officials, four Class II, 58 Class III and 153 Class IV employees, source said.
“We are facing serious trouble in running academic activities as there are no teachers in three basic subjects like pharmacology, anaesthesia and cardiology,” the principal said, adding that the college needs at least 22 teachers to the run its academic activities smoothly.
Prof Dr Mahmudur said they raised the issue in the November 18 district coordination meeting recently.
According to the hospital sources, construction of 14 new buildings spending Tk 584.46 crore is going on.
The construction work, which began in July, 2016 and likely to be completed in June, 2020, includes a five-storey academic building, separate residential hostels for male and female students, internee doctors and dormitories for both male and female doctors, nurses and emergency staff.
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