Govt ready to build medical colleges on PPP model: Min

Govt ready to build medical colleges on PPP model: Min

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Bengaluru:30.12.2020

The government is ready to build more medical colleges on publicprivate partnership model, said health and medical education minister K Sudhakar.

He was speaking at the inaugural of the new building of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre in Shivajinagar on Tuesday.

“Karnataka needs more medical colleges to meet the demand for doctors. Establishing a college requires Rs 600-Rs 700 crore. If it is built on PPP model, it reduces the burden on the state exchequer and also helps provide affordable medical education and treatment to the needy. This model is being adopted in Gujarat and it will be implemented here as well,” he added. The institute offers facilities for 150 students to study MBBS. “We’re increasing the bed capacity of district hospitals, providing better infrastructure and constructing hostel facilities where no medical colleges are available,” he said.

Sudhakar said the state is in the process of obtaining permission for an AIIMS. There will also be a new health and medical education policy for the state. “As per the WHO guidelines, there should be one doctor for 1,000 population. But in our country, it is 1:10,000-12,000. There is a need to increase the number of medical colleges to produce more number of doctors,” he added.

NEW START: Chief minister BS Yediyurappa and grand-daughter Soundarya Neeraj during the inauguration of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College & Research Institute building in Shivajinagar on Tuesday