Medical College being set up in backward Mewat district

Updated on: Friday, July 17, 2009

Chandigarh: A medical college costing Rs 678 crore is being set up Mewat district of Haryana to provide quality health services and medical education, particularly in the backward area.

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Health, Anuradha Gupta said here today that the Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would lay the foundation stone of the medical college at village Nalhar in Mewat on July 19.

Under the first phase of the project of a 450 bedded hospital, medical college, hostel for doctors and nursing students, residence for doctors and other staff would be constructed, Gupta said, adding that it would be completed in 18 months.

She said that a dental college and a nursing college would also be set up in the second phase of the project.

Gupta said that to meet immediate needs of health care delivery and tide over the shortage of medical staff in Mewat area, the state government had given special cash incentives to the doctors and paramedical staff posted in Mewat area.

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