State Medical Education and Research Minister OP Soni on Wednesday laid the inspiration stone of the boundary wall of Dr BR Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences at SAS and mentioned that 4 new authorities medical schools can be arrange throughout Punjab at a value of Rs 1500 crore. Town.
Four medical schools shall be arrange at Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Malerkotla, Soni mentioned, including that there shall be no scarcity of medical doctors in Punjab very quickly, as about 500 further medical doctors will cross out yearly from these upcoming authorities medical schools. .
He mentioned that at current there are about 1400 MBBS seats in medical schools (each personal and authorities) of Punjab and 500 extra seats shall be added as soon as new schools are began.
“The land was made available for all the colleges. The medical college in Mohali is expected to be operational as there is already a 300 bedded hospital running there and we need to increase it. About 80 per cent of the faculty has already been recruited for Mohali Medical College and the process is on for the recruitment of paramedics and other support staff,” he mentioned.
Soni additional added, “We have utilized for NMC inspection of the Mohali facility and are wanting ahead to start out the primary batch by this 12 months. The Medical College constructing shall have one educational block, 4 lecture theatres, laboratories, enough house for ladies/boys/dormitories, college residences, library, auditorium in addition to indoor play space/group centre.
In addition, a 200-bed new hospital block can even be inbuilt a state-of-the-art multi-storey constructing with devoted wards for Ortho, Ped, ENT, Derma, Surgery and a devoted blood financial institution in addition to seven operation theatres. As per out there estimates, round Rs 325 crore shall be spent on infrastructure, whereas Rs 50 crore shall be spent on procuring hi-tech tools. Soni mentioned that tenders shall be floated for the development of Mohali Medical College and Hospital inside a fortnight.
The Health Minister additional mentioned that consultants have additionally been accepted for Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala Medical Colleges and the design is being reviewed. Once the design of the constructing is finalised, tenders shall be floated for a similar.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
