Under brown-field, green-field policies Gujarat will produce 5,000 doctors every year: CM

Ahmedabad: With a view to provide medical education at the local level to the students from interior and rural areas of the state, Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani today expressed a desire to set up new medical colleges on PPP basis in seven districts. He made this statement at a function held to award certificates to the 2nd batch of 150 students of MBBS, at the Medical Colleges being organized by the Gujarat Cancer Society in Ahmedabad.

The Chief Minister said that for setting up super specialty hospitals in interior and rural areas, his government would give 25% subsidy on latest machineries and equipment facilities. These colleges would be started in the state with a notion to make 5,000 doctors every year under the new brown-field and green-field medical policies. This would also result into preventing the students from going abroad for the higher studies.

He urged the students to adopt approach of serving poor and needy patients and to maintain dignity of this noble profession.

Under the ‘Yuva Swawlamban Yojna’, the government will bear the 50 % fees of those students who are from lower income families and taken admission in self-finance medical colleges.

Others who spoke on the occasion included, Mr. Pankajbhai Patel, Chairman of Zydus Cadila and Executive Chairman of G.C.S., Dr. Kirtibhai Patel, and Dean of G.C.S. Medical College. While, Mr. Poonamchand Parmar, additional chief secretary, health and family welfare department, Mr. Prashant Kinariwala, Hon. Secretary G.C.S., Mr. Shitij Madanmohan, secretary remained present on the occasion.

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