Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has set up a three-member team to look into allegations involving a Punjab medical college. The team headed by Additional Secretary K Desiraju has been asked to submit its report within a week, pending which permission to Gyan Sagar Medical College at Patiala to take a new batch of students has been kept in abeyance. <br/><br/>Taking a serious view of recent reports of corruption in Medical Council of India, MCI, the Minister referred to his earlier communication to Deans and Principals of all medical and dental colleges in which he had asked them to refrain from entertaining any middle-men or conduits promising approval or recognition of their colleges for both undergraduate as well as post graduate courses.<br/><br/>The Minister, in his statement, had directed that if any college authority entertains such middlemen or brokers it would be viewed seriously and followed by stringent and stern action including withdrawal of the recognition or debarring from admission a new batch of students for a year or two. <br/><br/>The strong message from the Minister followed the recent arrest of four people including MCI President Ketan Desai for allegedly accepting bribe of two crore rupees through a middleman from the Gyan Sagar Medical college authorities for renewal of permission to take students for 2010-11.<br/>