Six new medical colleges to come up in Gujarat

Updated on: Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Nearly half a dozen medical colleges with 900 seats are to be set up in Gujarat in the next couple of years, Minister of State for Health Parbat Patel said.
 
As many as 900 more seats are to be added in the State's medical education by opening six new medical colleges in the next couple of years, he said.
 
Patel was talking to the media after inauguration of a new medical college in Gotri here.
 
Gujarat has set up three new medical colleges (with a total 450 seats) and they have started functioning from this academic year (which began yesterday), the Minister said.
 
The state has taken up the mission to ensure that not a single deserving student from Gujarat has to go to other state for medical education, he said.

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