13 new Medical Colleges in UP with 1000 MBBS Seats to admit students this year
New Delhi: Bringing good news to the medical aspirants in Uttar Pradesh, altogether 13 new medical colleges with an intake capacity of 1000 MBBS seats are set to begin their first academic session from 2023 onwards.
With this, altogether 5,128 Government medical seats will be available in Uttar Pradesh for admission to undergraduate medical courses. Meanwhile, the principal secretary of the State Department of Medical Education, Alok Kumar informed that the principals have already been appointed in these colleges.
Construction work is also complete and the process of recruiting faculties and staff is underway. He further informed that the State has already applied to the National Medical Commission (NMC) for its permission and the team of the Apex medical commission will soon conduct inspection of these medical institutes between June and July 2023 for providing permission to run the MBBS courses.
Speaking to Careers 360, he said, "We had 8,300 MBBS seats in 2022-23. We will have around 1,000 more with the 13 new medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh."
"MBBS seats will be added by private medical colleges as well. The exact number will be known once the NMC gives the requisite permissions and the seat matrix for admission counselling is ready. The number of seats may increase as a few private colleges may also start functioning from this year; existing colleges may expand," he further added.
DME Principal Secretary Mr. Kumar mentioned that there are altogether 75 districts in the State and there are a total number of 65 medical colleges in Uttar Prades. Among these, 35 government medical institutes and 30 private medical colleges are located in 59 districts.
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"So, there are 16 districts with no medical college and districts like Lucknow which have over six," he pointed out adding that "One of the priorities of the Uttar Pradesh government is to have at least one medical college in each district."
Referring to the possibility of setting up more medical colleges in the State, he told Careers 360, "We have a public-private-partnership (PPP) policy for establishing medical colleges in under-served areas where the government is giving subsidies to private sector operators to set up medical colleges. We have found four private entities who are going to develop medical colleges. Their functioning will depend upon the pace of their construction. Six private sector operators are under bidding process for establishing medical colleges. For the remaining six districts, we are asking for an in-principle approval of the Government of India (GoI) which is likely to come within six months. All districts of Uttar Pradesh will be covered by at least one medical college by the end of 2027."
Explaining how these new medical colleges will contribute in the process of betterment of health facilities in the State, he informed that people will be able to avail tertiary-level medical services in their own districts and they won't need to travel long distances. Further, people will be able to avail more affordable and quality healthcare.
"Uttar Pradesh is among states with a low number of medical professionals per thousand population. Medical colleges also produce workforce for the entire healthcare system of the state. We will have more medical professionals including doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and paramedical staff," he said.
"The state government in 2015 realised that UP is not adequately investing in healthcare and worked toward improving the healthcare system. Now, we see a whole new push for investment, both public and private. We have doubled the number of government medical colleges from 17 in 2017 to 35 in 2022. In a span of five to seven years, we will be tripling the number of government medical colleges," he further informed the Daily.
"It is huge exponential growth and I don’t see any other state achieving this much within such a short span. With constant support from the government towards the medical sector, we are witnessing a demand among students for medical courses. We are increasing the number of medical colleges to increase access for students," he added.
Referring to the matter of faculty in the medical colleges, Mr. Kumar informed that back in 2018, the State Cabinet gave its approval for Medical Bond Scheme. Under this scheme, MBBS graduates from Government medical institutes are required to serve the State for two years.
"Now, MBBS graduates will be available as junior residents and PG medical graduates will be available as senior residents and faculties. PG students with one year of experience will become assistant professors. In this way, we have ensured proper supply of faculties at assistant-professor level. We need 51 faculty members for first year MBBS students of whom six are professors, 15 are associate professors and the rest, assistant professors. So, the bulk of the vacancies are at the assistant-professor level and through this bond scheme we are able to fulfil the need of assistant professors," he said.
Informing that the State has decided to appoint retired professors to deal with the faculty shortage, he told the Daily, "The real challenge is to get professors and associate professors. We have decided that assistant professors with four years of service will be promoted as associate professors. To fill the posts at the professor level, we have decided to induct professors who retired from government colleges at 65. According to NMC norms, they will be allowed to teach students at the age of 70 years. This is how we are solving the problem of faculty shortage."
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that according to the data shared by the Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar there are altogether 9253 MBBS Seats in Uttar Pradesh. Among these, 4303 MBBS seats are available in 35 Government Medical colleges and 4950 MBBS seats are available in 32 private medical colleges.
Earlier this year UP Department of Medical Education and Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak had informed that another 1,300 MBBS seats are going to be added in Uttar Pradesh and 13 new medical colleges will commence from the academic year 2023-2024.
Sharing the news regarding this development, Minister Pathak Tweeted, "1300 MBBS seats will be increased in government medical colleges of UP , there will be a big change in the medical education sector. 13 new medical colleges will be started from the new session 2023-24. Health systems will be better in the state, as well as the education and career of the youth will get a new flight."
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