100 new medical colleges by 2027, proposes Union Health Ministry
Union Health Ministry proposed to set up 100 new medical colleges by 2027 by upgrading district hospitals.
To further upgrade the health infrastructure of the country, Union Health Ministry has drawn a proposal to set up 100 new medical colleges by 2027 by upgrading district hospitals under the fourth phase of the centrally sponsored scheme for the "establishment of new medical colleges by upgrading district or referral hospitals".
The colleges will be set up under this scheme to boost the availability of human resources for the health sector at an estimated cost of INR 325 crore per college based on central and state share of 60:40, said official sources, as reported by NDTV.
The Department of Expenditure has approved the proposal of the Health Ministry, and a cabinet note in this regard has already been drafted.
"The proposal to set up 100 medical colleges by upgrading district hospitals in the fourth phase of the scheme has been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC), after which a Cabinet note has been prepared," said an official source.
Details about the Central Scheme
The funding pattern for the northeastern and special category states is in the ratio of 90:10 between the Centre and the state.
In the last three phases, 157 medical colleges were approved, and 93 of them have become functional while others are at different stages of construction. These proposed 100 medical colleges will be set up in 100 districts which have a population of more than 10 lakhs and where there are no private or government medical colleges.
Further, the centrally sponsored scheme has a new component of providing INR 10 crore with each for setting up of nursing colleges attached to the existing 157 medical colleges already approved in the first three phases, the source added. But this will require amendment in the existing minimum standard requirement regulations of the NMC in which such attachment of medical and nursing colleges is not allowed.
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