Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said his Ministry has undertaken several path-breaking initiatives to introduce reforms in medical education.The initiatives have been taken in consultation with the Medical Council of India, he said in his speech at the convocation of PGI here. The convocation was addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. These include measures for...
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proposed railway medicalcollege could give Mysore a miss. Reason: The Mysore division of South WesternRailways does not have the required land specified by the Medical Council ofIndia (MCI).The MCI norms specify that the medical college shouldhave a single plot of 25 acres to house the facility. But in Mysore, the landidentified by the officials is 18 acres.After railway ministerMamata Banerjee announced...
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seven medical colleges and hospitals in Madhya Pradesh would be connected by close circuit TV (CCTV) network with the state health ministry, an official said today.The decision has been taken at a joint meeting of the autonomous committee of the six medical colleges at Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Rewa and Sagar and the dental college at Indore.Madhya Pradesh Health and Medical Education minister...
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seven medical colleges and hospitals in Madhya Pradesh would be connected by close circuit TV (CCTV) network with the state health ministry, an official said Wednesday.The decision has been taken at a joint meeting of the autonomous committee of the six medical colleges at Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Rewa and Sagar and the dental college at Indore.Madhya Pradesh Health and Medical Education...
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' today said that the work on government medical college building in Almora would be completed within two years.After laying foundation stone for the medical college here, the Chief Minister said 25 acres of land has also been acquired for the college building. He said one more medical college would be opened in Dehradun and Sushila Tiwari Medical...
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A sense of disappointment has set in among the health activists and the public who were campaigning for the upgrade of the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS) here into a centre of excellence with Central aid as reports came in that the Thiruvananthapuram medical college will instead get the status.that they have received the official communication from the Union Health Ministry choosing...
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) has urged the government not to relent to the question of the ban on private practice of government medical college teachers. Kavumbai Balakrishnan, president, and V. Vinod, general secretary of the organisation, said in a statement here on Wednesday that several studies had stated that it was necessary for raising the standard of medical...
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Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam here has represented to P.Kumar, MP of Tiruchi, to take steps to solve the problems faced by the Railway employees at Golden Rock in Tiruchi.In a memorandum submitted to the MP recently, K.C.Neelamegam, regional secretary of the Iyakkam, had requested for providing potable drinking water from theHe also wanted Mr. Kumar to take steps for providing good housing quarters to the...
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Tamil Nadu Electricity Board’s Tirunelveli Division has effected minor changes in the load-shedding schedule, which will come into effect from October 28 onwards.6 a.m. to 8 a.m.: V.M. Chathram, Srinivasa Nagar, Thentral Nagar, Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital areas, St. Xavier’s College areas, Palayamkottai Bus-Stand areas, Rajendra Nagar, Railway Feeder Road, Jothipuram, area between Vannarpet...
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Thiruvananthapuram: Revising a previous recommendation of its Standing Committee, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided that the Department of Psychiatry at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College is better suited to be developed for a Rs.30-crore project for setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Mental Health, under the National Mental Health Plan (NMHP).The Standing Committee...
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