Staff Reporter
DIMAPUR, MARCH 28
The principal director of the state’s Health and Family Welfare department, Dr Sukhato Sema on Monday said that the reluctance of experts in medical sciences, residing in other states, to come and work in Nagaland was presenting a major hurdle to the state government’s plan to make the Naga Hospital Kohima function as a medical college.
The central government, on February 22, 2014, has already issued work orders to upgrade the Naga Hospital Kohima into a medical college when Imkong L Imchen was the minister of Health and Family Welfare.
Speaking at the Rotary Rahat Medical Mission at District Hospital Dimapur, Sema said that this reluctance or refusal by people/experts outside the state to teach in Nagaland has resulted in “shortage of faculty.”
This, in turn, has made it difficult for the state government to make the college functional, he said. According to Sema, despite the problems, the state government hopes to run the medical college from January 2017. He requested the visiting team of doctors to spread the information, and for recommendations, among the medical community in their respective places.
Governor, PB Acharya also made a similar appeal to the visiting team of doctors. “It is not difficult to open an institution here. But the problem is about faculty, about who is ready to come and serve here,” he said.
Quoting Narendra Modi’s vision of developing the northeast region, Acharya reminded that the country would develop only when the northeast develops. “Nagaland is in its present condition not because of the people of Nagaland.
“It is because of our deficiencies, the people from the mainland – those with the capacity to change things. We have allowed it to become so,” Acharya said to the delegation.
