150 MBBS seats for Karur medical college
KARUR, MAY 09, 2019 00:00 IST
Health Department confirms MCI approval
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has permitted the State government to admit 150 students in Karur Medical College for the academic year 2019-20.
The approval has come about four weeks after a MCI team visited Karur to inspect infrastructure facilities at the medical college hospital.
A three-member team - pre-clinical, para-clinical and clinical-had - visited Sanapirati, where construction of medical college is taken up at a total estimate of Rs. 269.59 crore.
Confirming the MCI approval, a senior official of the Health Department said that the government had received the permission within a short span of time since the start of construction of medical college in Karur. The MCI team had expressed satisfaction over available infrastructure for admitting 150 MBBS students.
The new sanctioned MBBS seats would be included in the pool of MBBS seats for admitting students during 2019-20.
In addition, the MCI had sanctioned 100 more MBBS seats in the Government Medical College in Tirunelveli. With this, the number of seats would go up from 150 to 250.
Construction over
The official said that construction of various buildings had almost been completed for starting the medical college in Karur. While Rs. 122.79 crore was meant for building a 800-bedded hospital, classrooms with a plinth area of about 3.20 lakh sq. ft. were built at an estimate of Rs. 75.79 crore. A sum of Rs. 71 crore was spent for construction of a hostel for students.
The existing Government Hospital in Karur had been attached to the Karur Medical College.
520 beds
There were 520 beds in the GH. It had been getting more than 2,500 out-patients a day, which was 1,400 more than the norms of MCI. It had five special units such as surgery, medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and anaesthesia.
Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had laid the foundation stone through video conferencing for the college in March 2016.
The college was originally planned to build at Kuppuchipalayam, which is 10 km away from Karur.
It was later shifted to Sanapiratti in Karur. After a number of legal hurdles, the State government began construction in 2017.
KARUR, MAY 09, 2019 00:00 IST
Health Department confirms MCI approval
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has permitted the State government to admit 150 students in Karur Medical College for the academic year 2019-20.
The approval has come about four weeks after a MCI team visited Karur to inspect infrastructure facilities at the medical college hospital.
A three-member team - pre-clinical, para-clinical and clinical-had - visited Sanapirati, where construction of medical college is taken up at a total estimate of Rs. 269.59 crore.
Confirming the MCI approval, a senior official of the Health Department said that the government had received the permission within a short span of time since the start of construction of medical college in Karur. The MCI team had expressed satisfaction over available infrastructure for admitting 150 MBBS students.
The new sanctioned MBBS seats would be included in the pool of MBBS seats for admitting students during 2019-20.
In addition, the MCI had sanctioned 100 more MBBS seats in the Government Medical College in Tirunelveli. With this, the number of seats would go up from 150 to 250.
Construction over
The official said that construction of various buildings had almost been completed for starting the medical college in Karur. While Rs. 122.79 crore was meant for building a 800-bedded hospital, classrooms with a plinth area of about 3.20 lakh sq. ft. were built at an estimate of Rs. 75.79 crore. A sum of Rs. 71 crore was spent for construction of a hostel for students.
The existing Government Hospital in Karur had been attached to the Karur Medical College.
520 beds
There were 520 beds in the GH. It had been getting more than 2,500 out-patients a day, which was 1,400 more than the norms of MCI. It had five special units such as surgery, medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and anaesthesia.
Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had laid the foundation stone through video conferencing for the college in March 2016.
The college was originally planned to build at Kuppuchipalayam, which is 10 km away from Karur.
It was later shifted to Sanapiratti in Karur. After a number of legal hurdles, the State government began construction in 2017.
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