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Renowned medical doctor V Kanagasabai retires after 30 years of service
Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai | Friday, February 7, 2014, 08:00 Hrs  [IST]

V Kanagasabai, a medical doctor and a role model for all medical professionals, retired as the Dean of Madras Medical College (MMC) after a period of 30 years of services in various medical colleges in Tamil Nadu.

In the last seven years of his service, he served as Dean to Dharmapuri Government Medical College, Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College in Salem, Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai and Madras Medical College, one of the two oldest medical colleges in Asia.

Dr Kanagasabai was the Director of Medical Education for six months before assuming charge as the Dean of MMC. During his tenure at MMC, he was also asked to assume the additional charge of DME, which continued until his retirement. He was also the deputy chairman of Nursing Board till date.

To his credit, while serving as DME, he recruited and appointed 1120 pharmacists in the three directorates of the health departments. He was instrumental in starting two new pharmacy colleges, one at Thanjavur and another one at Coimbatore.

As the Dean of MMC, he obtained permission from Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) to increase the intake of students for B Pharm course at the college of pharmacy at the medical college from 50 to 60, in 2011-12. To ensure better delivery of education and improve the overall standards of pharmacy education, a model 3600 Performance Appraisal system (PAS) was evolved and put in place for the faculty of the College of Pharmacy attached to the MMC. Complete appraisal was done for the 18 pharmacy teachers. The rating was done to motivate the staff, to improve their performance and achieve better results.

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Elangeswaran Feb 8, 2014 1:13 PM
Hope the Pharmabiz is providing oppurtunity to him in some Pharmacy College for a key position based on his influence at all level in all the political parties in Tamilnadu to sustain postings in the key places in Chennai and his name has been published in the recent election for Members for Medical Council of India, Tamilnadu. His renownness may be verified from PG Institute of basic Medical Sciences, where he has studied Pharmacology and the Late Prof.Namasivayam, a Professor of Physiology during 1982 to 1985. India is a cursed country and the health of the people is in delapidated state like old building of Madras Medical College. He may be awarded with Noble Prize for the cause of improvement in Medical Education by this renowned person.

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