6 new Medical colleges to come up in Jharkhand
Jharkhand- Big announcements were made by state Health Minister Irfan Ansari during the recent budget session in Jharkhand. The government is going to build medical colleges in 6 districts and super-specialist hospitals in 5 districts of Jharkhand, the health minister said.
In this regard, medical colleges will be opened on PPP mode in 6 districts of Jharkhand, including Dhanbad, Deoghar, Khunti, Giridih, Jamtara and Jamshedpur. The opening of these medical colleges will benefit lots of youth who aspire to become doctors, and even students from other states will be able to study.
Along with this, super-specialist hospitals will be established in 5 districts of Jharkhand, including Dhanbad, Jamtara, Deoghar, Hazaribagh and Godda. With the opening of this hospital, the problems of the patients will be solved, and the burden on other hospitals will also be reduced, reports Pioneer.
Preparations are underway to open medical colleges in 6 districts of Jharkhand soon.
Earlier, to enhance healthcare infrastructure in the district, Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with HSCC India Limited, a Government of India enterprise. Medical Dialogues has reported that the agreement aims to establish a state-of-the-art 150-bed super-speciality hospital within the premises of the Bokaro General Hospital (BGH).
"There are a total number of 74,306 Postgraduate seats and 1,18,190 MBBS seats in the country," Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Smt. Anupriya Patel stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha recently.
The Minister was responding to the queries raised by Niranjan Bishi and Sulata Deo regarding the number of postgraduate (PG) and MBBS graduates passing out each year from medical colleges in each State during the last five years, year-wise and State-wise; and the doctors to patient ratio in each State of the country with a comparison of 2004 and 2024, alongwith the number of doctors and total population for each State during those years.
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