Published by: Shin Kachru
Latest version: Jun 03, 2023, 17:03 IST
Health Minister says Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is most eminent for healthcare (Representative Image)
The AP health minister said that when the TDP government left office in 2019, there were only 926 postgraduate seats which have now increased to 1,388.
Five new medical colleges will be inaugurated in August and classes will begin from September, increasing the total number of MBBS seats in the state to 2,935, Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Vidadala Rajni said on Thursday. The health minister said that Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is most eminent for healthcare.
“Getting permission for five medical colleges in a span of just five years is a rare feat. This is a record in the state’s history,” Rajini said in a press note shared by the state government today. With 150 MBBS seats each, these five colleges at Vizianagaram, Eluru, Nandiala, Machilipatnam and Rajamahendravaram will add 750 to the current 2,185 seats. According to the minister, 100 In the interim, previous governments had managed to set up only 11 medical colleges in the southern states, starting with the King George Hospital in Vizag in 1923 but Reddy managed to start building 17 more at a cost of Rs 8,500 crore in just four years.
He said, apart from these five, the remaining 12 colleges will also start functioning in the next two to three years. Further, he observed that when the TDP government left office in 2019, there were only 926 postgraduate seats which now stand at 1,388 with the addition of 462 more seats. Rajni said the new college and additional seats are a boon for Andhra Pradesh students as some of them need not shift to other states for medical education.
(This story was not edited by News18 staff and appears from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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