The Medical Council of India (MCI) has given its approval for 26 more seats in the Post Graduate (PG) courses in the Shri Guru Ram Rai (SGRR) Medical College, Dehradun. The college would now have 74 seats in PG courses an increase of 26 from 48 which it had earlier.
The advisor to the SGRR institute of medical and health sciences Dr Mohan Singh said that six new seats are approved for department of Gynaecology and obstetrics which is a great achievement.
He said that the five more seats have been added in the medicine department and it will now have 11 seats in PG. Similarly six more seats have been added in the surgery department which now would have 10 seats.
The department of anaesthesia would now offer PG to eight students while department of paediatrics got four more seats. Dr Singh claimed that PG seats in other departments would also increase after the ensuing visit of MCI team. He said that the young medicos should ensure their participation in providing health services to remote areas of the state.
Dr Singh suggested that the state government should enter into a bond of two years with the students who are doing their MBBS under the state and management quotas. He said that the fees of the students who don’t enter into the bond should be increased.
The Principal of the college Dr Anil Kumar Mehta said that the health services of the state would get a boost by increase in the number of seats in the PG courses of the college.
He added that the SGRR medical college would continue to provide support to the health system of Uttarakhand.