Health Bulletin 08/August/ 2025 - Video
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900 Beds, 2000 OPDs mandatory for 250 MBBS seats: Health Minister details NMC guidelines in Parliament
The Union Minister of State for Health, Smt Anupriya Patel, recently provided the details of patient bed-capacity prescribed under the UG-Minimum Standed Requirements for MBBS seats intake at medical colleges.
For 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 MBBS seats, the hospital should have a capacity of 220, 420, 605, 770 and 900 patient beds, respectively.
Further, there should be an OPD count of 400 for 50 MBBS seats, 800 OPDs for 100 MBBS seats, 1200 OPDs for 150 MBBS seats, 1600 OPDs for 200 MBBS seats, and 2000 OPDs for 250 MBBS seats. There should be 1 minor OT for each surgical speciality and 4 major OTs for 50 MBBS seats, 7 major OTs for 100 MBBS seats, 9 OTs for 150 MBBS seats, 10 OTs for 200 MBBS seats and 11 OTs for 250 MBBS seats.
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900 Beds, 2000 OPDs must for 250 MBBS seats: Health Minister details NMC guidelines in Parliament
How a Raipur Medical College Tricked NMC! Paid Villagers Rs 150 to Pose as Fake Patients, final year students posed as faculty: Report
Shri Rawatpura Sarkar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (SRIMSR), Raipur, which recently came under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for being involved in a full-scale fraud to obtain recognition from the National Medical Commission, used fake patients and fake doctors to secure recognition.
According to media reports, to get NMC recognition, the medical college lured healthy people from many villages and admitted them as patients to meet the OPD-IPD standards, in exchange for money. Further, the hospital allegedly hired fake doctors to meet the Apex Medical Commission's norms.
Uncovering this scam, the CBI has already arrested the director of SRIMSR, Atul Kumar Tiwari. Further, the bureau has named the Chairman of the medical college, Ravi Shankar Maharaj, in the First Information Report (FIR).
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MBBS in Tamil Nadu now costs up to Rs 1.8 crore at Private Medical Colleges
MBBS education is getting costlier in Tamil Nadu as the private medical colleges are charging up to Rs 1.8 crore for the UG course.
Previously, the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), Tamil Nadu, released the revised fee structure at the self-financing medical colleges in the State for the academic year 2024-2025. Medical Dialogues reported that, as per the revised fee structure released by the TN Directorate of Medical Education, the MBBS fees for the management quota seats at the self-financing medical colleges were raised by Rs 1.5 lakh, making it Rs 15 lakh per year. DME had also increased the fees for the NRI quota seats by Rs 2.5 lakh. Therefore, the NRI quota fees for the academic year 2025 have been fixed at Rs 27 lakh per annum.
Therefore, for the MBBS course with a duration of almost 5 years, the total fees for the management quota seats will be Rs 75 lakh and the fee will be Rs 1.4 crore for the NRI quota seats.
However, apart from the tuition fees, the private medical colleges also charge non-tuition fees amounting to lakhs of rupees per year. Salem-based Annapoorana Medical College and Hospital charges the highest non-tuition fees of nearly Rs 6 lakh per year. Therefore, the non-tuition fee at the institute for the entire MBBS course is approximately Rs 32 lakh.
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MBBS in Tamil Nadu now costs up to Rs 1.8 crore in Private Medical Colleges
NMC ask Medical Colleges to observe Anti-ragging Day on August 12
Through a public notice, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has asked medical colleges to observe the Anti-Ragging Day on 12th August, and Anti-Ragging Week from 12th to 18th August 2025.
The University Grant Commission (UGC) decided in 2023 that Anti Ragging Day would be observed on 12th August, followed by Anti Ragging Week. This initiative is one of the tools of the Commission to increase awareness against ragging.
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