New Medical College with 100 MBBS seats, 580-bed teaching hospital under PPP model to come up in Mumbai
Maharashtra- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently received an expression of interest (EOI) from a private party to set up a new medical college in Govandi, Mumbai. This new medical college will have a capacity of 100 MBBS seats and will also have a teaching hospital with 580 beds. It will be set up on the public-private partnership (PPP) model and will be attached to the existing Pandit Mandan Mohan Malaviya Shatabdi Hospital.
The establishment of this new medical college and hospital is aimed at meeting the future requirements and reducing the burden of patients in other municipal/government hospitals. The college will be set up following all the norms of the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC). The contractor will construct, operate and maintain the medical college but under the guidance and supervision of BMC.
In this regard, Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Health) Sharad Ughade said that “the deadline for the extended EOI will expire on July 14. Hence, we have received interest from one party”, reports FreePressJournal. He also further informed that the Shatabdi Hospital will become operational soon. Setting up of the new medical college attached to it is a long-term project and will take at least five years.
At the same time, a senior official of the BMC-run KEM Hospital said that about 100 medical seats have been added in municipal medical colleges and hospitals in the last few years. A new medical college will take years to set up, but it will prove helpful in view of future needs. If it is run entirely by the BMC or under the PPP model, it is important to have a medical college in the eastern suburbs given the growing population.
The western suburbs have Cooper Hospital, but the eastern suburbs have a municipal corporation-run medical college. There is only one big municipal hospital here, which is at Rajawadi in Ghatkopar.
Meanwhile, currently there are only two medical colleges in Mumbai, namely Grant Medical College and St George's Medical College, which are run by the state government, while the BMC manages the medical colleges attached to Sion, Nair, KEM and Cooper hospitals.
