Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday that all 75 districts of the state would have medical colleges in six months
"It is ironic that only 12 government medical colleges were built in Uttar Pradesh between 1947 and 2016 but our government built 32 new medical colleges in four-and-a-half years since assuming office in 2017,'' he said after an inspection of Maharshi Devraha Baba Medical College in Deoria district.
It is one of the nine medical colleges of the state which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as soon as the approval is granted by the Medical Council of India.
He said that the state government, with the help of the Centre and its own resources, had established a chain of medical colleges in the state covering as many as 59 districts.
“Such developmental activities take place when the like-minded governments are there at the Centre and the state,'' he pointed out.
Expressing his gratitude to the prime minister for launching Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, the chief minister said that five-seven years ago it could not have been imagined that Deoria would also have a medical college.
He said that Rs 155 crore had already been spent on the Rs 208-crore project of Deoria medical college where the appointment of faculty had been completed while the remaining work would be completed by December this year.
The chief minister said that the people of eastern Uttar Pradesh would get world class medical facilities. He said there used to be only BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur which catered to the entire region but now there would be medical colleges in Deoria, Basti and Siddharthnagar too while the construction work was underway in Kushinagar.
“The AIIMS in Gorakhpur, with world class medical facilities, has also started serving in Gorakhpur. It will also be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October,” the chief minister said.
He said that the role of medical colleges had been significant in controlling the menace of pandemic in the largest populated state of the country. He said encephalitis was also controlled during the last four-and-a-half years. He said once Deoria was also among the most encephalitis-affected districts but now the deaths due to it had come down by 95 per cent.
