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Post-graduate seats to be increased in Medical Colleges of MP
Bhopal, January 20 (Pervez Bari): A proposal has been sent to the Union
government for increasing 55 seats in Madhya Pradesh's medical colleges for
present post-graduate courses as well as post-graduate courses in new streams.
With the availability of these seats, the state will have more medical teachers
and specialists. This information was revealed by Minister for Medical
Education, Public Health & Family Welfare, Biodiversity & Biotechnology and
Public Grievances Redressal Anup Mishra.
Medical Education Minister Mishra informed that at present about 400 seats of
diploma and degree courses are available with 50 percent quota of the Union
government. Adequate number of medical teachers are not available in the state
due to lesser seats in post-graduate seats in the state's quota. With this in
view, the Madhya Pradesh Government has urged the Union government to allot 16
post-graduate seats in microbiology, psychiatry, dermatology, forensic medicine
and transfusion medicine. At present, post-graduate education in these streams
is not available in the state's medical colleges.
The Medical Education Minister informed that the Union government has also been
urged to increase 39 seats in the available post-graduate courses. These include
anatomy, physiology, community medicine, pathology, ENT, surgery, medicine,
gynaecology and paediatrics.
The proposal made by the state government will involve a burden of Rs. 68 crore
22 lakh 60 thousand. A team of the Union government will soon visit the state to
study the proposal. Later, it will be studied by the technical committee. (pervezbari@eth.net)
M. P. efforts to check mother & child mortality rate lauded
Bhopal, January 20 (Pervez Bari): An 11-member team of National Rural Health
Mission from New Delhi has lauded the efforts of Madhya Pradesh Government in
checking mother and child mortality rate and increasing the number of
institutional deliveries.
The team also praised the state government’s decision to establish a call centre
and start emergency vehicle express in every district, which will provide
Medicare to general patients as well besides pregnant women under Janani Express
Yojana.
The team comprised of Director Union Health Ministry Arun Baroka, Assistant
Commissioner Dr. Manish Malhotra, Assistant Commissioner Dr. S. Sikandar,
Assistant Commissioner Dr. B Kishore, Consultant Dr. Thelka Narayan, Dr. Ganga
Kumar, consultant Dr. Ravish Behel, consultant Dr. Ushma Sharma, consultant Ms
Geetanjali Agrawal, consultant Dr. Kalyani and Financial Controller Sanjeev
Gupta. From Madhya Pradesh side, Health Secretary S. R. Mohanty, Health
Commissioner Manohar Agnani, Director Health Ashok Sharma, A. N. Mittal and
Joint Director of Health Mission S. K. Shrivastava attended the meeting.
Apart from reviewing the activities of the Health Mission in Madhya Pradesh, the
team also reviewed the action plan for the year 2010-11. The team lauded Madhya
Pradesh government for increasing percentage of institutional deliveries from 26
to 72 per cent. They also praised the decision to establish intensive care units
for new born children at every district headquarter and planning to extend the
scheme to other areas of the state as well. Health Secretary Mohanty informed
the team that the Chief Minister and the Health Minister have instructed to turn
the programmes to check mother and child mortality rate into a mission. (pervezbari@eth.net) |
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