Telangana's Husnabad to Get Its First Govt PG Medical College With 50 Seats
Telangana- Telangana's Husnabad first government postgraduate medical college is going to be established soon. The government has approved 50 PG seats for the newly expanded 250-bed government hospital in the city.
On Friday, Telangana Health Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha visited his constituency along with Ponnam Prabhakar, Tummala Nageswara Rao and Komatireddy Venkat Reddy. During this, the Health Minister announced the new expansion of the PG Medical College in Husnabad.
Till now, Husnabad had only a 50-bed facility. After this expansion, the town will have a full-fledged multi-speciality government hospital, a maternal and child health centre and a medical college, all under one roof.
Meanwhile, during the visit, Rajanarasimha also laid the foundation of a 150-bed hospital block in Siddipet district and inaugurated a 100-bed children and maternal care centre. After this, he addressed the public meeting. During this, he said that the government has opened eight new medical colleges and 16 nursing colleges. More colleges will be opened in the coming weeks, reports Deccan Chronicle.
Medical Dialogues earlier reported that to address the infrastructure and staffing shortages in government medical colleges, the Telangana State Health Department has established Medical College Monitoring Committees (MCMCs).
After conducting field visits to 34 GMCs across Telangana, these committees will assess the infrastructure, faculty, hospital operations, and student facilities, and thereafter submit a detailed report along with photographic evidence by June 30.
This came in response to the National Medical Commission's show-cause notice to 26 out of 34 government medical colleges in the State. After receiving NMC's notice on June 13, Health Secretary Christina Z Chongthu issued an order on June 19 announcing the formation of the MCMCs.
Setting up these committees, the Health Department has tasked them to ensure that all the government medical colleges in Telangana meet the benchmarks set by the NMC- the Apex Medical Education Regulatory Body in the country- by June 2028.
