Gorakhpur: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath while addressing a gathering after distributing 483 laptops among MBBS students and paramedical staff at BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur said that Uttar Pradesh will soon realise the goal of ‘one district, one medical college’. The CM stressed on the need for strengthening healthcare services in all medical colleges and said that the government was taking efforts in strengthening of healthcare services across the state.
The laptops to MBBS students and paramedical staff were presented under Swami Vivekananda Youth Empowerment Scheme. He said a number of new medical colleges had come up in various districts and that two new medical colleges—one each in Ballia and Balrampur—will be set up soon.
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The CM said new medical colleges in Shamli and Sambhal would also start their academic session from this year. As per him, Uttar Pradesh will give admission to 10,500 MBBS seats from this year. Yogi urged MBBS students and paramedical staff to keep patience in handling patients and their attendants. The CM appreciated the medical fraternity for their services towards mankind and appealed to them to focus on their technical upgradation to expand their outreach. Yogi also inspected medical and paediatrics wards and took feedback from patients and their attendants at the BRD Medical College. Applauding the cooperation extended by PM Modi, he said that a super speciality hospital for treatment of Japanese Encephalitis patients was granted by PM Modi along with a regional unit of Indian Council of Medical Research.
