On June 26, the People's Committee of Quang Nam province announced that it had decided to assign the principalship of Quang Nam Medical College to Mr. Bui Long An - the school's vice principal, until the competent authority decides to appoint the principal.

Previously, on June 14, Quang Nam Medical College sent a document to the Provincial People's Committee requesting to issue temporary graduation certificates to current graduates.

Accordingly, after Mr. Huynh Tan Tuan - Principal of Quang Nam Medical College, was prosecuted and temporarily suspended from his position by the Provincial People's Committee, the school only had 2 vice principals. According to regulations, no one had the authority to sign the graduation certificates for students who were due to graduate.

Faced with this situation, Quang Nam Medical College requested the Provincial People's Committee to allow Mr. Bui Long An - Vice Principal, to sign and issue temporary graduation certificates for this semester's graduating students, with an expected number of 120 students.

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Quang Nam Medical College has been "unstuck" in granting graduation certificates to students. Photo: Nguyen Nam

According to Mr. Bui Long An, after being assigned the authority of principal by the Provincial People's Committee, he signed the graduation certificates for students who are eligible to graduate. On June 29, the school will hold a graduation ceremony for about 70 students in the first batch. At the same time, it will continue to review and grant certificates to the remaining students.

As VietNamNet reported, on April 1, the Investigation Police Agency of Quang Nam Province initiated a case and prosecuted Mr. Huynh Tan Tuan - Principal and Mr. Nguyen Ba - former Principal of Quang Nam Medical College, to investigate the crime of abusing position and power while performing official duties at this school.

At the same time, authorities also prosecuted the school's accountant and a business director directly involved in the incident.

According to the conclusion of the Inspection Committee of Quang Nam Provincial Party Committee, in the two terms of 2015-2020 and 2020-2025, Quang Nam Medical College used more than 23 billion VND in funding compared to the number of students enrolled and trained.

In addition, the General Hospital under the Quang Nam Medical College implemented health insurance examination and treatment expenses exceeding the ceiling and total amount (2016-2020 period) by more than 12 billion VND; owed money for purchasing medicine for examination and treatment from suppliers (2016-2020 period) by 9.4 billion VND.

Violations at Quang Nam Medical College led to prolonged unpaid wages for employees, so in December 2023, the school's lecturers decided to collectively stop working. After that, the Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee provided additional support of VND 5.8 billion for the school to pay unpaid wages to employees.

Principal prosecuted, school has headache over signing graduation certificates for students

Principal prosecuted, school has headache over signing graduation certificates for students

After the principal was prosecuted, Quang Nam Medical College only had two vice principals and no one had the authority to sign graduation certificates for students.