NMC notice to 4 Telangana, 2 AP medical colleges over CCTV non-complianceHyderabad: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued notices to four medical colleges in Telangana and two in Andhra Pradesh for failing to comply with mandatory norms on closed-circuit television camera (CCTV) systems and their integration with the regulator’s command and control centre.The public notice, by NMC secretary Dr Raghav Langer, was issued on July 6. The colleges have either not installed the prescribed surveillance system or failed to provide live feeds from 25 cameras through a network video recorder (NVR). They were also required to maintain 30-day playback footage.Four Telangana colleges on listThe Telangana institutions named are Ayaan Institute of Medical Sciences, Teaching Hospital and Research Centre at Kanaka Mamidi in Rangareddy district; Dr VRK Women’s Medical College at Aziznagar; Government Medical College, Nagarkurnool; and Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences, Research Centre and Teaching Hospital at Peerancheru.Except Government Medical College, Nagarkurnool, the other three are private undergraduate institutions.In Andhra Pradesh, the notice covers the govt-run postgraduate Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Visakhapatnam and the private undergraduate Nimra Institute of Medical Sciences in Krishna district.70 institutions warned nationwideThe six colleges were among 70 medical institutions across 19 states that failed to link their CCTV systems with the NMC centre despite repeated directions and advisories issued since 2022.The cameras are prescribed at locations including patient registration counters, outpatient department entrances, emergency wards, lecture theatres and administrative sections. The system enables remote verification of teaching activities, faculty attendance, patient volumes and clinical exposure.The NMC has directed the institutions to comply immediately and explain the deficiencies. It said regulatory action would follow if their responses were found unsatisfactory.
