Increase in PG seats would tackle the problem of scarcity of doctors:PM Modi in Surat

Surat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that his government has increased around 4000 seats for PG courses in Medical education which would help in tackling the issue of dearth of doctors and provide health services in far flung villages.

After lading at the Surat Airport on his two day Gujarat visit today, addressing a meeting of the local BJP unit in presence of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani who received him, Modi said that the lack of doctors was an universal complaint. His government has increased around 4000 seats for PG courses in medical education which would create as many professors of medical colleges in future who in turn would prepare 40 to 50 thousand or may be one lakh new doctors. This would tackle the problem of dearth of doctors and would lead to the availability of health services in rural areas.

The Prime Minister also praised CM Rupani and his team for making the towns of Gujarat free from open defecation. He said that around 500 towns across the country have achieved this.

Modi also praised the entrepreneurial spirit of Suratis saying that that Surat is one of the cities in the country which has achieved great height in a small period of 25 years and turned itself in to a hub of economic activities owing to the perseverance and power of its residents.

He also thanked the locals for attending his meeting in large number.

Local BJP MP C R Patil, Mayor Asmitaben Shiroya and other BJP leaders were also present on the occasion.

Modi later left for Dahej in Bharuch to inaugurate a plant under joint venture of the ONGC. He would later inaugurate a bridge on river Narmada. He would go to Gandhinagar for night stay and participating in Dinner hosted by CM and the governor. Tomorrow he would visit Somnath temple and later address woman sarpanchs at Mahtma Mandir in Gandhinagar.

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