NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCT 25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh, giving a boost to the state’s medical infrastructure. Modi inaugurated the medical colleges virtually from Siddharthnagar.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya were also present at the event.
Leaving for Siddharthnagar and Varanasi. Today, India’s largest scheme to scale-up health infrastructure will be launched. Various medical colleges along with key development works will be inaugurated. pic.twitter.com/mY0RiZH7vU
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 25, 2021
“By opening these new 9 medical colleges over 2500 new beds are added, over 5000 employment opportunities will be generated. Earlier govt has left people of ‘Purvanchal’ to suffer from diseases but now it will become a medical hub of Northern India…,” said PM Modi.
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- The name of Madhav Prasad Tripathi will continue to give inspiration for public service to the young doctors coming out of the medical college
- Purvanchal, Uttar Pradesh previously maligned for meningitis will give a new light of health to Eastern India
- When the government is sensitive, there is a sense of compassion in the mind to understand the pain of the poor, then such accomplishments happen
- The dedication of so many medical colleges is unprecedented in the state. This did not happen earlier and why it is happening now, there is only one reason – political will and political priority
- Till 2017 there were only 1900 medical seats in government medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh. The Double Engine government has added more than 1900 seats in just the last four years
Built at a cost of Rs 2,329 crore, the medical colleges are located in Siddharthnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur districts.
While eight medical colleges have been sanctioned under a Centrally sponsored scheme for establishment of new medical colleges attached with district or referral hospitals, the one at Jaunpur has been made functional by the state government through its own resources.
Under the Central scheme, preference is given to backward and aspirational districts.
The scheme aims to increase the availability of health professionals, correct the existing geographical imbalance in the distribution of medical colleges and effectively utilise the existing infrastructure of district hospitals.
Under three phases of the scheme, 157 new medical colleges have been approved across the nation, out of which 63 medical colleges are already functional.
