GOOD MORNING TO ALL OF MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS , HAVE A NICE DAY .......A GATEWAY TOWARDS BETTER HEALTH SERVICES AND NEW INDIA 2022 ... India will soon have 75 new medical colleges in the next three years with the Union Government spending Rs 24,375 crore on the institutes to ensure better healthcare facilities in areas lacking them. The decision to open new medical colleges was taken at the Union Cabinet meeting .The new medical colleges would be set up in areas having no medical college with at least 200 bedded district hospital. The government declared that preference will be given to aspirational districts and district hospital having 300 beds for the establishment of the new colleges. Continuing the focus on the creation of health care infrastructure, the Central Government had earlier approved to establish 58 new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals under Phase-I and 24 under Phase-II. Of this, 39 medical colleges under Phase-I, have already started functioning, while the remaining 19 would be made functional by 2020-21. Under Phase-II, 18 new medical colleges have been approved.The establishment of new medical colleges would lead to an addition of at least 15,700 MBBS seats in the country. This step has been taken to improve the doctor to population ratio.

Manoranjan Kalia

Date 29 Th August 2019 .