State Medical Education and Research Minister OP Soni on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the boundary wall of Dr BR Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences at SAS and said that four new government medical colleges would be set up across Punjab at a cost of Rs 1500 crore. Town. Four medical colleges will be set up at Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Malerkotla, Soni said, adding that there will be no shortage of doctors in Punjab very soon, as about 500 additional doctors will pass out every year from these upcoming government medical colleges. . “The land was made available for all the colleges. The medical college in Mohali is expected to be operational as there is already a 300 bedded hospital running there and we need to increase it.
About 80 per cent of the faculty has already been recruited for Mohali Medical College and the process is on for the recruitment of paramedics and other support staff,” he said. Soni further added, “We have applied for NMC inspection of the Mohali facility and are looking forward to start the first batch by this year.” In addition, a 200-bed new hospital block will also be built in a state-of-the-art multi-storey building with dedicated wards for Ortho, Ped, ENT, Derma, Surgery and a dedicated blood bank as well as seven operation theatres. The Health Minister further said that consultants have also been approved for Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala Medical Colleges and the design is being reviewed. Once the design of the building is finalised, tenders will be floated for the same. .
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