Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to raise retirement age of Medical faculty in J&K.Minister said that the retirement age of medical faculty has been raised by 2 years in 60 per cent of the Indian states while as in J&K it is still 58.“I have written to every CM and almost 60 per cent of the CMs have increased the age limit, but in J&K it is still 58 years," Azad said.
Azad, who was speaking at foundation laying ceremony of Sant Manjit Singh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at Jeevan Nagar, about 15 kms from here.He said that being under staff most of the medical colleges fail to get recognition from the Medical Council of India (MCI),Stressing on the taking the all possible staff to increase medical faculty and other infrastructure at all the medical colleges Azad said,“ The state needs to take measures in this regard.”"There has been no improvement in the faculty. The four medical colleges which are present in our state are purely running because of intercession, otherwise all the four will be rejected (by the MCI)," he said.