UP got 14 Medical Colleges in pipeline, informs CM Yogi

Lucknow: The proposal for the establishment of 14 medical colleges in the state of Uttar Pradesh has been sent to the Central government. The confirmation to this effect was recently given by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who added that these medical colleges will see MBBS admissions from 2022.

Medical Dialogues had recently reported that to strengthen the medical education sector of the state, the Uttar Pradesh government is working on the plan to establish 15 more new medical colleges from 2020.

At that time, mentioning that the work is done by the State government in the medical sector, the Chief Minister had said only 12 medical colleges were set up between 1947 and 2012. The government is building 15 new medical colleges across the State, out of which seven colleges have already been opened.

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"Our government has taken up construction of 15 new medical colleges, 2 AIIMS, cancer institute between 2016-19. We are also adding super-speciality blocks to the already existing medical colleges. We have started the work on 15 more new medical colleges. This when we are already working on 15, out of which we have started admission in 7 from this year," said Adityanath.

"700 students are studying MBBS in these 7 new medical colleges established by us. We are planning to give at least one medical college for two districts in Uttar Pradesh," he had added.

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Moreover, State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had earlier advocated for the bond service, while announcing that every MBBS medico graduating from Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) will have to mandatorily work for 2 years in rural areas; unless they go for higher studies.

He further stated that doctors who have completed PG medical courses (MD and MS) from GMCs would also have to provide one-year of rural service. All these students will have to sign bonds undertaking to serve in remote areas after acquiring MBBS and PG medical degrees.

This has been done to fulfil the shortage of doctors in rural areas. Pertinently, the state is grappling with acute shortage of doctors and the government has taken several measures to overcome it over the last few years.

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Now, in a recent development, the CM stated to the UNI that proposal to open 14 medical colleges in the state has been sent to the Centre which will see admissions from 2022.

In addition, the Chief Minister here inaugurated the academic block of the Lohia Institute and also inspected the Center Research Lab made at the first floor.

On this occasion, Adityanath said that King Georges Medical College and Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) used to fare at the top as far as providing quality healthcare facilities to the people were concerned, hitherto. Now, the Lohia Institute is also in the running.

The CM said the competition should be to provide quality health facilities to the patients. Now, the 23 crore people will get the benefit of the institute. The Institute's Director AK Tripathi said 56 kidney transplants have taken place here. He said earlier, efforts were not made to run institutes in a professional manner and the state had to suffer because of this.