Medical college for Ramnad
RAMANATHAPURAM, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 00:00 IST
Project sanctioned under ‘aspirational district’ category
The Centre has agreed to establish a medical college at Ramanathapuram District Headquarters Hospital here, fulfilling a long-pending demand of the people, Minister for Information Technology M. Manikandan has said.
The move comes after Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish the college under a Centrally sponsored scheme. The Centre would soon make the announcement, which would go a long way in addressing the need for tertiary medical care in the district, he pointed.
The Minister said the State government, which was to establish the college, approached the Centre and citing financial onstraints requested it to sanction the project under the ‘aspirational district’ category. Ramanathapuram is one of the aspirational districts in the State.
Mr. Palaniswami took up the issue with Mr. Modi when he visited Delhi in October 2018 and again recently when the Prime Minister visited Madurai to lay the foundation for All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The Chief Minister told him that Ramanathapuram was a historically backward district and geographically remote with a long coastline.
Rameswaram island, an internationally acclaimed tourist centre, attracted pilgrims from all over the world, but the district lacked tertiary medical care facility, he had pointed out. Hence, there was urgent need to establish a medical college as people of the district were forced to travel about 110 km to Madurai for any emergency.
Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao said the district administration would make available the required lands for the medical college. The 623-bedded headquarters hospital received about 1,500 outpatients every day. About 15,000 people were admitted as inpatients and 450 major surgeries were conducted in the hospital in a month.
Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa accorded medical college status to the hospital in December 2012 and since then expectations ran high.
RAMANATHAPURAM, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 00:00 IST
Project sanctioned under ‘aspirational district’ category
The Centre has agreed to establish a medical college at Ramanathapuram District Headquarters Hospital here, fulfilling a long-pending demand of the people, Minister for Information Technology M. Manikandan has said.
The move comes after Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish the college under a Centrally sponsored scheme. The Centre would soon make the announcement, which would go a long way in addressing the need for tertiary medical care in the district, he pointed.
The Minister said the State government, which was to establish the college, approached the Centre and citing financial onstraints requested it to sanction the project under the ‘aspirational district’ category. Ramanathapuram is one of the aspirational districts in the State.
Mr. Palaniswami took up the issue with Mr. Modi when he visited Delhi in October 2018 and again recently when the Prime Minister visited Madurai to lay the foundation for All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The Chief Minister told him that Ramanathapuram was a historically backward district and geographically remote with a long coastline.
Rameswaram island, an internationally acclaimed tourist centre, attracted pilgrims from all over the world, but the district lacked tertiary medical care facility, he had pointed out. Hence, there was urgent need to establish a medical college as people of the district were forced to travel about 110 km to Madurai for any emergency.
Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao said the district administration would make available the required lands for the medical college. The 623-bedded headquarters hospital received about 1,500 outpatients every day. About 15,000 people were admitted as inpatients and 450 major surgeries were conducted in the hospital in a month.
Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa accorded medical college status to the hospital in December 2012 and since then expectations ran high.
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