Presiding over the meeting of the empowered committee for the founding of the Nursing Colleges, Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar granted approval for the Government Medical College Haldwani’s BSc, Nursing, and Government State Nursing College MSc Nursing courses.
Besides this, he also approved increasing the seats of three private nursing colleges. The CS said that the Act for the State’s para medical counseling had been prepared. The regulations for the Act needed to made and implemented.
It was revealed during the meeting that there were a total of 14 proposals for setting up nursing colleges. Out of these nine that had complied with the norms were presented before the committee. Five out of the nine were granted approval. The Government Medical College Haldwani has got approval for 60 BSc Nursing seats.
The Indian Nursing Council has given recognition to the Government State Nursing College, Chander Nagar, to run the MSc course for 18 seats. Other than this, Paul College of Nursing seats have been increased to 60 from 40, and ANM seats to 60 from 40. The seats of Swami Bhoomanand Nursing College, Haridwar, have been increased to 50 from 30, GNM seats from 15 to 30 and BSc nursing seats have been increased to 40 from 20.
Similarly the seats of AMN and GMN in Jeevan Rekha Hospital, Kashipur, have been increased to 60 from 30 each. Secretary, Health Education, Manisha Panwar and other officials were present in the meeting.