150 MBBS seats in new med college

Pushpa Narayan





PUDUKOTTAI, VIRUDHUNAGAR ON TN HEALTH MAP 

 

There will be at least 150 additional seats in government medical colleges in the state from the 2017-18 academic year as the Medical Council of India has cleared the decks for a college in Pudukottai.

 

The Union health ministry's communication is expected before MBBS counselling, based on NEET scores, begins, health secretary J Radhakrishnan said. Until now, there were 2,750 MBBS seats in 21medical colleges, including four in Chennai. In 2016, after 15% of seats were given up for the national quota, counselling was held for 2,318.
Foundation for the college, sanctioned in August 2015, was laid in March 2016 on a 127acre plot at Mullur village. Chennai:
  

100 BDS seats in 2nd govt institute

Chennai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





The state government is set to build its second dental college, in the southern district of Virudhunagar, nearly 40 years after the first came up in Chennai. The 100 seats available in the college from 2018 will take the number of dental seats in state-run colleges to 200. On Wednesday , chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy issued orders for the establishment of the institution, based on an announcement by former chief minister J Jayalalithaa in the state assembly on August 25, 2015. Palaniswami has given the nod for the state health department to begin construction of buildings and appoint a dean, a release said. after setting up infrastructure and appointing faculty , the state will apply for permission from the Dental Council of India to admit students into BDS course, health secretary J Radhakrishnan said.

The state, which had 21medical colleges, had put off plans to start dental colleges as the demand for MBBS courses was higher. Now, there are 18 self-financing dental colleges under the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University besides deemed universities. The Tamil Nadu Dental College established in Chennai in 1980 was the sole state-run institution. “ Although there are many dental colleges in the state, we felt the need for a government tertiary care centre in the south,“ he said.

As of now, out-patients dental services are provided in district hospitals and primary health centres thrice a week. “ A government dental college hospital will be able to offer specialised services free,“ a senior doctor said.