The Cabinet on Monday in principle approved the draft of "Private Medical and Dental College Bill, 2020" in order to bring the private medical institutions under a law instead of two separate guidelines, reports UNB.
The approval came from the weekly Cabinet meeting held virtually with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
The PM joined the meeting through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban, while other cabinet members remained connected from the Secretariat.
"At present, private medical colleges and private dental colleges are run under two guidelines.... Now it's not possible to run the institutes properly by only guidelines. A law is needed to regulate these. So, the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division framed the bill," said Cabinet Secretary KhandkerAnwarul Islam at a press briefing after the meeting.
The private institutes are now run under the Private Medical College Establishment and Operation Guidelines 2011 and Private Dental College Establishment and Operation Guidelines 2009, he mentioned.
"As per the bill, a college will have to have at least 50 students, its teacher-student ratio will have to be 1:10 and 75 per cent teachers will have to be permanent," said the Cabinet Secretary adding the number of part-time teachers can't be exceed 25 per cent of the teachers.
The colleges will be affiliated to the divisional medical universities concerned, he said.
Cabinet okays bill to bring pvt medical institutes under law
FE Team | Published: September 28, 2020 22:53:47
Cabinet okays bill to bring pvt medical institutes under law
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