Bhubaneswar: The Mohan Charan Majhi-led government in the State is committed to fulfill its promise to establish medical colleges in every district of the State.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling said this in the Assembly while replying to a question of senior BJD legislator Pratap Keshari Deb.
The Minister said BJP had promised to set up a medical college in each district of Odisha in its manifesto and the government is committed to implement it.
“As per information available with me, around Rs 250 to Rs 300 crore is needed to set up a 100 MBBS seated medical college. Of which, the union government is bearing 60 percent while the state will have to bear 40 percent,” he said.
Dr.Mahaling said different central government organizations like National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) have established the medical college in Sundargarh district and Nalco has established a medical college at Talcher in Angul.
Besides, another medical college at Keonjhar has been set up with funding from District Mineral Foundation (DMF), he said.
“I want to assure the House that we will implement the promise made in our manifesto to open new medical colleges with funding from both centre and state so that every district will have at least one such institute,” the Minister said.On recruitment of doctors and paramedical personnel to fill up huge vacancies in different healthcare facilities, Dr.Mahaling said, “We have brought two amendments in the doctors’ recruitment rules. Very soon, we are going to start the process for recruitment of 5,000 doctors and 3,000 paramedical staff.”