Maharashtra's Government Medical Colleges to have affiliated nursing colleges
While speaking at an event at a Government Medical College in Maharashtra, Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan said that every government medical college in Maharashtra will have an affiliated nursing college. The objective is to create a pool of an adequate number of trained nurses, he added.
Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan said that every government medical college in the state will have an affiliated nursing college. The intention is to create a pool of an adequate number of trained nurses, he added.
He was speaking at an event organised in a Government Medical College to create awareness about organ donation.
"Every medical college in the state will have an affiliated nursing college," he said, as reported by Devdiscourse.
"The government has received a proposal to upgrade the health facility at Paithan in the district from 30 to 100 beds and it will be considered positively," he added.
On organ donation awareness, he said that in the West nearly 3,500 in every 10,000 persons donate organs while the ratio is just one in 10,000 in India. "Therefore, organ donation should become a movement and not just remain an event," he said.
Union minister Dr Bhagwat Karad who hails from Aurangabad district and Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel were also present at the event.
Jaleel in his speech pointed out that the government was setting up more medical colleges but had not recruited enough teaching staff.
"It is good that the BJP government has taken a decision to set up medical colleges in all districts. (But) The state government published a notification ordering existing staff to go to other districts as inspection by the National Medical Commission was scheduled," he said.
"If there are so many vacancies of teaching staff in existing medical colleges, then constructing buildings only will not work. There should be teaching staff in medical colleges. This cheating should stop and the government should accept openly that we have vacancies," Jaleel added.
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