Odisha to set up 4 new medical colleges, says health secretary
Health and Family Welfare secretary Shalini Pandit said that the state will set up four new medical colleges and upgrade 147 hospitals under ‘Ama Hospital’ programme. The new medical colleges are proposed to come up in Kalahandi, Talcher, Jajpur and Kandhamal. The Odisha government has sanctioned INR 750 crore under ‘Ama Hospital’ programme.
While speaking at the two-day collectors' conference, Health and Family Welfare secretary Shalini Pandit said that the Odisha government will set up four new medical colleges and upgrade 147 hospitals under ‘Ama Hospital’ programme besides developing a state of art cancer care institute.
The new medical colleges are proposed to come up in Kalahandi, Talcher, Jajpur and Kandhamal, she said, adding that the state government has sanctioned INR 750 crore under ‘Ama Hospital’ programme, as reported by The Print.
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She said, seven new medical colleges have been inaugurated in the past few years while four more medical colleges are in the process. Capital Hospital Bhubaneswar has been upgraded to a Post Graduate Institute.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has set a motto of ‘every life is precious’, the government was in the process of establishing dedicated cancer and cardiac care hospitals in Jharsuguda in a PPP mode, she added.
The establishment of the Odisha University of Health Sciences is underway. Affordable healthcare projects for setting up hospitals providing specialist care have been planned in four locations like Angul, Barbil, Jharsuguda and Bhadrak, in PPP mode.
‘Bagchi Srishankar Cancer Hospital’ with 750 beds and all modern amenities is being established in the state capital. Another 200-bed state-of-the-art cancer hospital is in the process of being set up by Tata Memorial Center in collaboration with the Government of Odisha and the Department of Atomic Energy on the NISER campus, she added.
"Odisha is the first and only state in the country to mandate free treatment for all persons, in all public health facilities. The free services include free drugs, diagnostics, OPD, IPD, surgery, ICU, in all government healthcare facilities, from primary health centres to medical college hospitals," she further added.
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