Telangana opens 9 new medical colleges
Telangana 9 new medical colleges: K Chandrasekhar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana, virtually inaugurated nine new medical colleges across the state on Friday. The inauguration was part of the government’s aim to open at least one medical facility in every district of Telangana.
New medical facilities have been established in Vikarabad, Kamareddy, Karimnagar, Khammam, Kumram Bheem Asifabad, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Jangaon, Nirmal and Rajanna Sircilla districts.
At that time, KCR claimed that Telangana excelled in a number of health indicators. According to him, the maternal mortality rate, which was 92 in 2014, will be 43 by 2023. Some media reported that the infant mortality rate has decreased from 39 to 21 in nine years.
“Furthermore, the number of births in government hospitals has increased from 30 percent to 76 percent in the past nine years,” KCR said.
Telangana scores first in MBBS number of seats with 22 seats per lakh of population
T Harish Rao, the state health minister, said that Telangana currently has 26 state-run medical institutions and eight more will open their doors in the next academic year. A “white corner revolution” was taking place in Telangana, he claimed.
According to Harish Rao, Telangana, which had the least number of MBBS seats in 2014, has now surpassed all other states in MBBS seats. According to him, this was a feat unmatched in any other region of the country as the state will have 22 MBBS seats for every lakh of its population.
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Source: HIS Education