Punjab to recruit 400 nurses, 140 technicians to cope with COVID crisis

Medical Education Minister O P Soni shared details of various hospitals and medical colleges that are coming up in Mohali, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala.

Efforts are also being made to establish medical colleges at Malerkotla and Gurdaspur with the approval of the Union government, he said, adding that the satellite centres of PGIMER will also be commissioned at Sangrur this year.

The construction of a satellite centre of the PGIMER at Ferozepur has started, he said.

Further, approval has recently been received from the ICMR, New Delhi, for setting up a national institute of virology at Mohali, he said.

Currently, the state has two universities under the department--Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, and Guru Ravidas Ayurveda University, Hoshiarpur.

In addition to it, there are three government medical colleges, two dental colleges, one ayurvedic college and 12 nursing Schools/colleges under the department.

Soni said more than 14,000 COVID patients have been treated in government medical colleges.

Post-COVID multispecialty OPD has been introduced for patients and arrangements have made to look after pregnant women during the pandemic, he added.

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