Number of Medical Colleges, MBBS seats doubled in North East: PM Modi

Modi during launch of AIIMS Guwahati said that in the North East the number of medical colleges has more than doubled in the last nine years. Work is in progress at many medical colleges. Many new medical colleges are going to be built here. In the last nine years, the number of medical seats in the North East has also doubled as compared to earlier.

PM said that North East got its first AIIMS and Assam has got three new medical colleges. The foundation stone of a 500-bed super specialty hospital for modern research in collaboration with IIT Guwahati has also been laid. He said that apart from Assam, people from Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Manipur are also going to get a lot of benefits from the new AIIMS.

Talking about number of AIIMS built during his government’s tenure he said that NDA government started work on 15 new AIIMS in the last few years. PM Modi said: “In most of these AIIMS, facilities for both treatment and education have started. AIIMS Guwahati is also an example of the fact that whatever resolution our government takes, it fulfils it as well.”

He said that India had a severe shortage of doctors and other medical professionals due to the policies of the previous governments. This deficiency was a major barrier to quality health service in India.

“In the 10 years before 2014, only about 150 medical colleges were built. In the last nine years, about 300 new medical colleges have been built during our rule,” Modi said.

MBBS seats in the country have also doubled to more than one lakh in the last nine years. There has also been an increase of 110 per cent in the number of PG seats in medicine in the country in the last nine years.

Modi said: “We have established the National Medical Commission for the expansion of medical education. We have also extended the facility of reservation to backward families so that their children can become doctors.”

He said that his government has given the option of medical studies in Indian languages so that children from remote areas can also become doctors. An announcement has also been made in this year's budget to open more than 150 nursing colleges.

Prime Minister said: “If I talk about the North East, then the number of medical colleges has more than doubled here in the last nine years. Work is in progress at many medical colleges. Many new medical colleges are going to be built here. In the last nine years, the number of medical seats in the North East has also doubled as compared to earlier.”

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