42 medical colleges with 6,715 MBBS seats in Telangana at present
Hyderabad: Telangana Medical and Health Minister T Harish Rao on Friday informed the Assembly that presently a total of 42 medical colleges are available in the state.
Replying to a question raised by the members during the question hour, Harish Rao said that only 20 medical colleges-five government and 15 private are there at the time of formation of Telangana state.
Now, a total of 42 medical colleges-17 Government, one ESI and 24 private are there in the state. he said.
The Minister said that the total number of 6,715 MBBS seats are available in the state now. Of them, 2,790 are in Government medical colleges, 53 in ESI medical college and 3,800 in private medical colleges.
A total number of 2,556 Post Graduate seats are available in the state. Of them 1,163 in government medical colleges, 53 in ESI medical college and 1,340 in private medical colleges, Rao said.
The Health Minister said a total number of 181 Super Specialty seats are available in the state. Of them, 159 in Government medical colleges and 22 in private medical colleges.
Harish Rao said that the government has sanctioned a total number of 27,403 teaching and non-teaching posts.
Of them, Doctors posts are (9,235), Nursing Staff (6,365) and Paramedical and other staff posts (11,803).
The government has also sanctioned an amount of Rs 6,005 crore for establishment of 12 new medical colleges in the state, the Minister added.
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