The Principal Secretary Health, Om Prakash informed that the approval for 150 seats in the Ist year MBBS course in Government Doon Medical College for the academic session, 2016-17 has been given by the Ministry of Health and family welfare.
He said that with this the number of seats of MBBS in the State would increase to 400 in Government colleges from present 250. The private colleges of the State have 250 seats. Apart from these 100 seats are available in AIIMS, Rishikesh, the examination for which is separately held.
Om Prakash said that the Ayush Ministry has approved 150 BAMS seats in the Rishikul, Gurukul and Uttarakhand Ayurvedic University Harrawala. Similarly 15 seats of MS and MD in Gurukul College are sanctioned. After these approvals the number of BAMS seats in Government colleges of State would increase to 260 from present 110. Similarly the number of PG seats would rise to 87 from present 33. The PS expressed happiness over these developments and said that the shortage of doctors would be removed in due course of time.