Siddharth Nagar (Uttar Pradesh) | Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday virtually inaugurated nine medical colleges of Uttar Pradesh from Siddharth Nagar.
These nine medical colleges are located in the districts of Siddharth Nagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mizarpur and Jaunpur.
Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that the new medical colleges, apart from giving a boost to health infrastructure, would also create new employment opportunities for the youth and those wishing to make a career in the medical field.
He said, “The image of Purvanchal till now was that hundreds of children die from encephalitis here. Now Purvanchal will be known as the light of health. This is the first time that so many medical colleges are being inaugurated simultaneously. Is.”
He further said that the previous government lacked the political will to ensure the welfare of the people.
Hitting out at the Samajwadi Party, he said, “They only ensure the welfare of themselves and their families. The cycle of corruption moves very fast.”
Meanwhile, under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme ‘Establishment of New Medical Colleges linked to District/ Referral Hospitals’, eight Medical Colleges have been sanctioned and one Medical College at Jaunpur has been commissioned by the State Government from its own resources.
Under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme, preference is given to disadvantaged, backward and aspirational districts.
The objective of the scheme is to increase the availability of health professionals, correct the existing geographical imbalance in the distribution of medical colleges and effectively utilize the existing infrastructure of district hospitals.
Under the three phases of the scheme, 157 new medical colleges have been sanctioned across the country, out of which 63 medical colleges are already functional.
