Prime Minister to inaugurate super specialty hospital in IIT Kharagpur today

Prime Minister will also be addressing the 66th Convocation of IIT Kharagpur.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be inaugurating Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur today; i.e. February 23. As per the official statement, the Prime Minister will also be addressing the 66th Convocation of IIT Kharagpur. West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Union Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre will also be attending the ceremony.

The super-specialty hospital has been set up by IIT Kharagpur with support from the Ministry of Education.

"The institute is inspired by the vision of the Prime Minister that the future of India will be shaped by investment in science and innovation and driven by its research talent. This hospital thus is a product of the fusion between technology and healthcare," read the statement. The hospital will focus on robust Biomedical, Clinical and Translational Research, the development of remote diagnostics, telemedicine, teleradiology along with research in drug design and delivery.

The MBBS programme in the institute is expected to start from the academic year 2021-22 in addition to postgraduate and doctoral programmes.

Meanwhile, the institute has announced that a team of researchers at the institute has transformed Odisha's steel plants' dumpsites into greenbelts using traditional Indian organic components and Japanese afforestation techniques. As per the team, a drive through the Dhenkanal region of Odisha will give one the chance to witness the vast stretches of green canopy and vegetation developed by them on what was once industrial dumpsites.

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