The number of specialist doctors in five medical colleges operational in the State is as per the guidelines set by the Indian Medical Council, informed Health Minister Ajay Chandrakar in Chhattisgarh Assembly on Friday.
Responding to the question raised by Congress member Renu Jogi during the question hour, Chandrakar informed that as many as 748 undergraduate students are studying in Graduate Programme of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur while number of students in Post Graduate Programme is 234
Similarly, number of students studying in Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Science (CIMS) Graduate Programme is 677 and their numbers in the Post Graduate programme is three. As many as 397 students are studying in Graduate Programme of late Shir Baliram Kashyap Memorial Medical College in Jagdalpur and around six students in the post graduate programme.
likewise, 148 undergraduates are studying in late Shri lakhiram Agrawal Memorial College in Raigarh and 196 students in Government Medical College of Rajnandgaon, said Chandrakar elaborating that the Post Graduate Programme is not running in these colleges.
Chandrakar further said that the State government is going to approach the Indian Medical Council for increasing number of PG seats. Similarly, the government has also sought permission for starting new courses in medical colleges.
Meanwhile, the Minister also informed the House that Ambikapur medical college would probably start in the coming academic session.