New Medical College with 100 MBBS To Come Up in Kandhamal Odisha

An amount of Rs 504 crore will be invested in the establishment of this college.

The medical college will have a capacity for an intake of 100 students every year, while the hospital will have 500 beds, Telegraph quotes the Minister as confirming the development.

The hospital will be a boon to the local population, and will provide more accessible health care facilities at their disposal.

As per the data provided by the MoS Health Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar before the Lok Sabha earlier, Odisha has a total of 1950 MBBS seats in 12 medical colleges.

The announcement was made during the Chief Minister's visit to Kandhamal to distribute the health smart cards under Odisha government's flagship programme Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, a universal health insurance scheme.

Under the scheme, a beneficiary is entitled to get medical benefit up to Rs 5 lakh and a woman beneficiary is entitled to receive cashless treatment of Rs 10 lakh every year. In Kandhamal district alone, 6.5 lakh people will avail health benefits under the Biju Swasthya Kalayan Yojana.

While distributing the health cards, Patnaik said the government aims to bring 3.5 crore people of 96 lakh families under the Biju Swasthya Kalayan Yojana and all of them will get the smart health cards. "The life of every human being is valuable. Now just showing the health cards, the beneficiary can avail medical facilities in 200 hospitals of the country," he said. So far 16 districts have been covered under the health insurance scheme of Odisha government.