CM Patnaik unveils teaching hospitals at 5 Govt Medical Colleges

“Nearly 3,000-bed teaching hospitals worth over Rs 2,000 crore were launched in a single day. This will benefit people across all socio-economic backgrounds in the districts concerned,” Patnaik said. 

There was a time when Odisha had three medical colleges, Patnaik said, adding that eight new medical colleges have come up in the state in the last six years.

This apart, two postgraduate institutes have been established during the time, an official said.

Meanwhile, the official said three more medical colleges are all set to come up in the next three years.

Though Odisha earlier produced only 321 MBBS doctors and 254 specialists annually, the number has so far increased to 2,525 MBBS and 972 specialist doctors annually.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in a bid to strengthen the health care services in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated 73 Ama Hospitals in 15 districts and 5 dialysis centres at sub-division hospitals.