HC pause ontraining course for med students

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the Bengal government not to start the six-month training course on “Fundamentals in Abdomino-Pelvic Ultrasonography” for

MBBS

students for a week after the Centre told the court that it has not given permission for such a course.

The HC is hearing a case in which medical students have claimed that this is a three-year post-graduate course specialisation for MBBS passouts and such certificate courses will rob their post-graduate degrees of their value.

Justice Shampa Sarkar said in her order: “Radiology is a vast subject and highly technical. Whether a certificate course of this nature could be equated with an MD degree needs consideration.”

The HC then directed the state “to keep the admission fees so far collected from candidates who have applied for the course in a separate bank account”. The court is likely to hear the case again on September 1.