Hyderabad: Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao will formally launch the commencement of classes for medical students in the newly established eight medical colleges in the government sector through online mode on Tuesday.
With this, the state government is on course to make history by launching eight medical colleges, the highest ever, at one go making medical education affordable to the poor and middle classes. An additional 1,150 students will be able to pursue MBBS courses at affordable fees.
The CM will launch classes in eight medical colleges in Sangareddy, Mahabubabad, Mancherial, Jagtial, Wanaparthy, Kothagudem, Nagarkurnool, and Ramagundam for first-year MBBS students who secured admissions.
Health minister T.Harish Rao stated that there were only five government medical colleges in the six-decades history of undivided Andhra Pradesh, but after the TRS government came to power in Telangana in 2014 under the leadership of CM KCR, the number of government medical colleges increased to 17. Further, he stated that when Telangana state was formed in 2014, there were only 850 MBBS seats in the government sector, which have now been increased to 2,790, and PG medical seats have been increased from 531 in 2014 to 1,122 now, and super specialty seats have been increased from 76 to 152. He said Telangana will herald a “new revolution” in the country’s government health sector.
He claimed that students from lower-income families who could not afford expensive medical education at private medical colleges used to avoid admissions even after scoring high marks in the Eamcet medical entrance exam.
Students were forced to study medicine in foreign countries such as China and Ukraine, as well as pay large sums of money in donations to gain admission to private medical colleges in the state and across the country. Harish said that the CM's aim was to have a government medical college for every district and remaining all districts will be covered soon.
