Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate six medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh on July 9. All these hospitals are operation ready and form a key part of state’s strategy to boost health infrastructure.
This is for the first time in the history of country’s most populous state that these many hospitals will be inaugurated in a single day, an official statement issued by the state government said.
“It is a belief of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that every district should have a medical college. In the state with the highest population there were only 12 medical colleges till 2017 and now the number under the present government has increased to 48 so far. Construction work of 13 more medical colleges is going on at a great pace.
The government has already recruited around 70 per cent faculty of the new medical colleges. (The) appointment process of over 450 faculty members in these colleges is going on. CM has directed the authorities concerned to ensure full transparency in the recruitment process,” the statement read.
The officials also stated as many as 36 new medical colleges have been set up in the state after March 17, when Yogi Adityanath took over as UP CM.
“There were just 12 medical colleges in UP till March 2017, but the BJP government announced to raise more medical colleges and ensure that people of the state do not have to travel to other states for treatment,” a spokesperson said.
