GMCs to Soon Be Established in Telangana's Coal Belt
Telangana: It comes as welcome news that on-site work to create the required infrastructure for the proposed government medical colleges in Ramagundam and Kothagudem in the State's coal belt region, has progressed and finally picked up speed.
The departments concerned have stepped up and are making active efforts to develop facilities for the future medical colleges.
The State government has already submitted applications to the apex medical regulator seeking its approval for setting up new government medical colleges in the following 8 places - Jagtial, Mancherial, Mahabubabad, Wanaparthy, Nagarkurnool, Sangareddy, Kothagudem and Ramagundam.
The new medical colleges with an intake of 150 MBBS seats each are expected to be taking admissions next year, sources said.
A site at the Government Degree and PG College in the coal town of Godavarikhani in Ramagundam mandal has been tentatively identified for establishment of the proposed medical college.
Sources added that efforts were on to ensure speedy construction of the buildings for the proposed college and hostels, upgradation of the facilities at the district/referral hospital to maintain the requisite bed strength as per the stipulated norms.
Bhadradri-Kothagudem Collector D. Anudeep on Sunday inspected the site earmarked for construction of the proposed government medical college and reviewed the progress.
Plans are afoot to set up 100 beds each at the proposed nursing college building and the existing Mother & Child Health Block at Ramavaram and 130 beds at the district headquarters hospital in Kothagudem to meet the requirement of 330 bed strength for the proposed medical college, reports The Hindu .
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