Centre’s nod for 3 more medical colleges in TN
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:28.11.2019
The Centre on Tuesday cleared new medical colleges in Tamil Nadu at Krishnagiri, Nagapattinam and Tiruvallur in addition to the six cleared last month. Each will have 150 MBBS seats.
The six colleges are at Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar, the Nilgiris, Dindigul, Namakkal and Tirupur. These nine colleges will not just increase MBBS seats in the state but will also create 9,000 jobs for doctors, nurses, paramedics and other allied health workers.
“At one stroke we will be able to added 6,750 tertiary care beds in the state, where treatment including for complex conditions including organ failure is done free of cost. This means people don’t have to travel from these districts to cities like Chennai, Madurai or Coimbatore for healthcare. Every medical college and hospital will have at least 300 doctors,” said health minister C Vijaya Baskar.
Vijayabaskar said the availability of abundant land parcels in the proximity of the district headquarter hospitals in Krishnagiri, Nagapattinam and Tiruvallur, helped the state get the sanction in no time.
Vijayabaskar and health secretary Beela Rajesh met Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday and thanked him for sanctioning three more colleges. “It is a dream of Amma (former CM J Jayalalithaa) to have colleges in each district. We are close to achieving. In the last six years of the AIADMK government, we have increased MBBS seats by 1,350. Nine more colleges will add another 1,350 seats,” the minister told TOI.
Vijayabaskar said the health department was also planning to take over Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital in Chidambaram, on the lines of medical colleges of ESIC, and IRT medical college in Erode.
Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union government for sanctioning the colleges. “I requested PM to sanction three colleges and funding for the same. The proposals were sent within a short span of time and land for the colleges was allotted immediately. On my request, the Centre has sanctioned. It is a historic achievement to obtain permission for nine colleges in a year,” the CM said.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:28.11.2019
The Centre on Tuesday cleared new medical colleges in Tamil Nadu at Krishnagiri, Nagapattinam and Tiruvallur in addition to the six cleared last month. Each will have 150 MBBS seats.
The six colleges are at Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar, the Nilgiris, Dindigul, Namakkal and Tirupur. These nine colleges will not just increase MBBS seats in the state but will also create 9,000 jobs for doctors, nurses, paramedics and other allied health workers.
“At one stroke we will be able to added 6,750 tertiary care beds in the state, where treatment including for complex conditions including organ failure is done free of cost. This means people don’t have to travel from these districts to cities like Chennai, Madurai or Coimbatore for healthcare. Every medical college and hospital will have at least 300 doctors,” said health minister C Vijaya Baskar.
Vijayabaskar said the availability of abundant land parcels in the proximity of the district headquarter hospitals in Krishnagiri, Nagapattinam and Tiruvallur, helped the state get the sanction in no time.
Vijayabaskar and health secretary Beela Rajesh met Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday and thanked him for sanctioning three more colleges. “It is a dream of Amma (former CM J Jayalalithaa) to have colleges in each district. We are close to achieving. In the last six years of the AIADMK government, we have increased MBBS seats by 1,350. Nine more colleges will add another 1,350 seats,” the minister told TOI.
Vijayabaskar said the health department was also planning to take over Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital in Chidambaram, on the lines of medical colleges of ESIC, and IRT medical college in Erode.
Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union government for sanctioning the colleges. “I requested PM to sanction three colleges and funding for the same. The proposals were sent within a short span of time and land for the colleges was allotted immediately. On my request, the Centre has sanctioned. It is a historic achievement to obtain permission for nine colleges in a year,” the CM said.
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