JOIN USThe State government has received applications for establishment of five new private medical colleges besid- es representations from six districts to open new government colleges in their respective jurisdictions.
Addressing a press conference in Bangalore on Thursday, Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas said district administrations of Tumkur, Koppal, Belgaum, Gadag, Chitradurga and Kodagu have sought the opening of new government medical colleges in their districts.
While Belgaum has specified that a medical college be opened in Chikodi, Kodagu has sought a new college in Madikeri. Besides, the government has received applications for opening six new private medical colleges.
These include Manasa Educational Academy, Bangalore, Children’s Educational Society, Sridevi Institute of Medical Sciences, Tumkur, GSS Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore and Akash Institute of Medical Sciences, Devanahalli.
The State government has also received an application for opening an ESIC Medical College in Gulbarga. The State government will take a call on giving them no objection certificates after scrutinising the applications.
A meeting of district administration and elected representatives will also be held with regard to opening new government colleges, he added.
The government has decided to extend the malnutrition ward for children, currently in operation at Victoria Hospital to government medical colleges and 10 autonomous medical colleges.
Each ward would have 20 beds and would come up at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore each. Medical education department and women and child welfare department have joined hands to address the issue of malnutrition among children, he said.
‘Centres of Integrative Medicine’ will be extended to all government medical colleges in the State, Ramdas said. These centres will combine Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Homoeopathy and Allopathy systems of medicine.