Foundation of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University to be laid on December 25

Published On 2019-12-22 08:10 GMT   |   Update On 2019-12-22 08:10 GMT
This would be an umbrella university to grant affiliation to 13 state medical colleges, 22 private universities, two autonomous institutions, two non-autonomous institutes and 17 private dental colleges in the state.

Lucknow: The state of Uttar Pradesh is slowly moving towards getting an umbrella university for medical and healthcare courses in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University, whose foundation stone will be laid on December 25th, the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihar Vajpayee.

Prime minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to place the foundation stone of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University on December 25 in Lucknow where the Government has allocated 50 acres land at CG city, Lucknow for this purpose.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported about the announcement of this univeristy which would be the umbrella university to grant affiliation to 13 state medical colleges, 22 private universities, two autonomous institutions, two non-autonomous institutes and 17 private dental colleges in the state. This medical university would be brought to execution, similar to the lines of APJ Abdul Kalam University, an umbrella university for engineering courses.

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“In the next 3 years, 45 of the 75 districts in the state will be having medical colleges, which would not only prevent the flight of capital from this state to other but also check brain drain,” Rajneesh dubey, Principal secretary of the medical education department told TOI.

He further added that this will give a boost to produce more doctors and overcome the shortage of doctors in the government hospitals as the strength of the medical students will increase to nearly double from 2200 to 4500.

He also informed that the central government has approved 13 more medical colleges by upgrading many existing district hospitals. Construction of 8 medical colleges is already on and apart from this, construction of 5 medical college is in full swing.

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