Malda Medical College to offer 14 new PG medical courses with 82 seats

Malda: Bringing good news to the Postgraduate medical aspirants in West Bengal, Malda Medical College and Hospital is soon going to commence PG medical courses in 14 new streams of medical science with an intake capacity of 82 seats.

Already the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI), now National Medical Commission (NMC) along with the State Health Department have given its permission in this regard, authorities informed Telegraph India.

These new streams, which are set to commence from the next academic session, include community medicine, general medicine, forensic medicine and toxicology, general surgery, biochemistry, and Orthopaedics.

Until now, the college used to offer PG medical courses in Paediatrics, Gynaecology and Microbiology. Altogether, there are 11 seats for these three streams in the college.

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Medical Dialogues had recently reported that sharing the data regarding the available medical seats in the country, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has informed that there are altogether 4825 MBBS and 1998 PG medical seats in West Bengal.

As per the latest media report by Telegraph India, now the PG medical seats at Malda Medical College and Hospital are going to increase since the NMC and the State Health Department have given the permission for adding 82 PG medical seats for 14 different PG medical courses. 

Speaking about this, the vice-principal of the medical college, Puranjay Saha told the daily, "With the introduction of the new courses, the number of streams available for PG courses will increase to 17."

“We have received approval for 82 more seats for 14 different PG courses. The idea is to introduce these courses from the next academic session,” he added.

“In some streams, there will be four seats while some will have five seats,” a faculty member of the medical college added.

Vice Principal further informed that the State Health Department had instructed the medical college authorities for taking all the necessary steps to start the courses.

“Construction of a new hostel building is in progress and the agency will shortly hand it over to us. We also have an adequate number of teachers who would take classes for these courses,” he mentioned.

According to sources, the medical college would spend around Rs 90 crore for preparing the infrastructure for the new PG medical courses at the institute.

Back in 2011, the Malda district hospital had been upgraded into a medical college and it is the second-largest state-run health infrastructure in North Bengal after the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital.

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