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Latest News |
| 17th
March 2010 / Times of India / Ahmedabad Edition |
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Gujarat to get 2,455 more seats in
medical, paramedical colleges
Gandhinagar: State health minister Jay Narayan Vyas on
Tuesday announced that Gujarat will be getting additional
2,455 seats in its medical and paramedical colleges, including
750 medical and 200 dental seats during the financial
year 2010-11.
Concluding the debate on budgetary allocations for the
health sector in the state assembly, Vyas said, “We
are also expecting 347 medical and 42 dental seats at
post-graduate level.”
Vyas was replying to Congress MLAs, including Dr Anil
Joshiara, who had said there was an acute shortage of
doctors in Gujarat, particularly in the rural areas.
“I fully agree with the observation,” Vyas
said, adding, “However, things would not have deteriorated
to this extent had we woken up to the need for having
more seats earlier.”
The minister said, “Instead of working for getting
more seats, we kept on allowing our boys and girls to
go out of the state and get admission paying heavy capitation
fees up to Rs 1 crore.
We never bothered that they were being subjected to worst
kind of ragging or they were insulted by being addressed
as Gujjus. The situation began to change in 2008. It will
take some time before the shortage of doctors ends.”
The minister also admitted that 15 per cent of the patients
suffering from swine flu could not be cured. He said,
“Of all the swine flu patients admitted in our hospitals,
85 per cent patients were fully cured.”
He claimed, “Facilities in government hospitals,
specially civil hospitals, is equal to, if not better,
than the private hospitals operating in the state. One
MLA was treated for a serious disease at one government
hospital.”
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