South Mumbai to get new Govt medical college with 50 MBBS seats
Mumbai: Bringing good news to medical aspirants in Maharashtra, a new government medical college with an intake capacity of 50 MBBS seats has been announced.
The announcement to this effect has been made by the Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Hasan Mushrif recently in the Assembly when he said, "The government medical college with an intake capacity of 50 seats in the premises of Gokuldas Tejpal and Cama Hospitals in south Mumbai will start from the academic year 2024-25", quotes IANS
He said the medical college will be affiliated with the Gokuldas Tejpal and Cama Hospitals and the number of seats will be increased from the academic year of 2025-26.
With increasing the number of doctors, superior medical care, access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise from specialist doctors will be made available to citizens from south Mumbai, he said.
The Medical Education Minister made a special mention of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker and the legislator representing the Colaba constituency, Rahul Narwekar, who was in the chair, for taking the initiative and continuously pursuing the matter with the state government.
Mushrif said that the government had issued a notification dated January 31, 2012, about starting a medical college on the premises of Gokuldas Tejpal and Cama hospitals. The government has completed the necessary administrative procedures and paperwork for the commencement of a medical college there.
He told the Assembly that the Indian Medical Council has indicated to give its approval and, therefore, the decision has been taken to start the medical college with an intake capacity of 50 seats from the academic year 2024-25.
Recently, Medical Dialogues had reported that the State Government in its final budget before the assembly elections announced that 18 new medical colleges would be established in the State. These medical colleges will be set up in 18 districts with an intake capacity of 100 MBBS seats and 430-bed hospitals.
Meanwhile, the State's plan to start 10 new medical colleges and add 1,000 MBBS seats this year may not become a reality as most of these colleges have received unfavourable feedback from the National Medical Commission (NMC) during the inspections last week.
Earlier this year, the former Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya provided the State/UT-wise details of MBBS seats across the country. As per the data provided by the Health Ministry, Maharashtra has 68 medical colleges with 10845 MBBS and 6074 PG medical seats.
