Gujarat govt takes decision to set up 8 new medical colleges

Gandhinagar: In a high level meeting held in capital Gandhinagar, the Gujarat government took a decision to set up five new brown field and three new green field medical colleges in the state. The decision was taken in order to expand the spread of affordable medical services in Gujarat’s remote areas.

A meeting chaired by Chief Minister was held to discuss the blueprint of new medical colleges under state government’s new health policy.

The government said, captains of pharma companies and cooperative dairies showed readiness to extend cooperation for new brown field medical colleges in Amreli, Dahod, Bharuch, Palanpur and Tapi-Vyara while green field medical collages will be started at three places, names of which are yet not announced.

Health minister Shankarbhai Chaudhary, leading doctors, representatives of corporate hospitals, charitable trusts and pharma industry, senior government officials, Zydus chairman Pankaj Patel, Torrent Pharma’s Sudhirbhai, MCI’s Ketan Desai among others were present in this meeting.

The Chief Minister made appeal to take maximum benefit of new health policy and come forward to set up medical care facilities in interior areas of state to ensure availability of best medical treatment for needy people and at the same time increase in number of medical seats. Chief Minister appealed corporate hospitals and charitable trusts to start generic medicine stores at their premises that are already started in government hospitals. In response to this Dr Yogendra Modi, president of Indian Medical Association opined that doctors would prescribe generic medicines to patients.

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