Tamil Nadu: PM Modi to inaugurated 11 new Government medical colleges .
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 11 New Government Medical Colleges across Tamil Nadu and the new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai today 12-01-2022. The new medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of about 4 thousand crore rupees. Of this amount, around 2 thousand 145 crore rupees has been provided by the Union government and rest by the Tamil Nadu government.
Districts of Tamilnadu
These districts in which the new Medical Colleges are being established are- Virudhunagar,
- Namakkal,
- The Nilgiris,
- Tiruppur,
- Thiruvallur,
- Nagapattinam,
- Dindigul,
- Kallakurichi,
- Ariyalur,
- Ramanathapuram and
- Krishnagiri.
Mission:
- Establishment of these medical colleges is in line with the Prime Minister's constant endeavour to promote affordable medical education and improve health infrastructure in all parts of the country.
- The new medical colleges, with cumulative capacity of 1 thousand 450 seats, are being established under the Centrally Sponsored scheme of ’Establishing of New Medical Colleges attached with existing district and referral hospital’.
- Under the scheme, medical colleges are established in districts which do not have either a government or private medical college.
Specilities:
- Each of these colleges would have 33 departments with basic facilities like dissection hall, laboratories, skill labs, central library, lecture halls, and examination halls, among others.
- They would also have hostel facilities and residential quarters for boys and girls, and quarters for the teaching staff.
- Each of these hospitals would have Emergency Department, Intensive Medical Care Unit, Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Sick Newborn Intensive Care Unit and Obstetric ICU, among others.
