RP Govt Medical College to soon get a girls' hostel: HP CM

The construction of a hostel for girls at Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College in Tanda will be completed soon, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said today.
Presiding over the college's 19th Foundation Day celebrations, the chief minister said funds would not be a constraint in the expansion of the institution which started with 50 seats in 1996.
Today, the number of MBBS seats has been increased to 100 besides the college is running postgraduate courses in 15 specialties, Singh said.
"Super specialty services in oncology (radiotherapy), cardio-thoracic and vascular surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology, cardiology and urology are being made available to the students.

"With the starting ofa Rs 150 croresuper specialty block at Tanda,the dreamsof the people of Kangra, Chamba, Mandi, Hamirpur and Una districts getting best medical careat affordable place has also come true during the regime of this government," he said.
Singh congratulated the institute for being rankedas firstamong state government medical colleges in north India and 18thamong all India government medical colleges, besides getting an all India ranking of 28 as per a survey conducted by a news magazine.

The institute is also first in northern India to start WHO fellowship after PGI Chandigarh, he added.
Singh said thestate had better health indicators as compared to national average as revealed in a report of the Health Commission. "Yet the need of the hour is to provide more specialists and experts in remote and far-flung areas of the state so as to make health care affordable."

Urging the doctors to prescribe generic medicines, Singh said all medical stores had been asked to keep and provide generic medicines to the patients except in the cases where need for specific medicine was inevitable.
He said under National Health Mission (NHM) and Janani Sishu Suraksha Karyakram welfare schemes, 5,705 beneficiaries had been given financial benefit worth Rs. 1.5 crore during the current financial year so far.
The future plan includes acquisition of additional land for the establishment of a mother and child care hospital within next five yearsand tomakeHimachal Pradesh the best model health care state in the country, the CM said.