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Deve Gowda requested to help get medical college sanctioned

By Our Special Correspondent

SHIMOGA, DEC. 27. The President of the Janata Dal (S) and former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, said here on Monday that he will strive to get a Government medical college sanctioned here this academic year.

He gave this assurance to a delegation of Shimoga District Development Forum which submitted a memorandum to him on the issue.

The memorandum says that the district does not find a place in a list of five locations where the State Government plans to open medical colleges.

The delegation said an expert committee of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences to study the feasibility of opening a medical college here had given a favourable report, stating that it fulfilled all the conditions laid down by the Medical Council of India for the purpose. The delegation said a Government medical college will help contain diseases endemic to the Malnad regions. Mcgann Hospital can provide the infrastructure needed for the medical college.

The delegation comprised K.A. Ashok Pai, president of the Shimoga unit of the Indian Medical Association; N. Manjunath, journalist; the Janata Dal (S) leaders Swarna Prabhakar and Y.H. Nagaraj, and the managing trustee of Shantaveri Gopala Gowda Samajawadi Adhyayana Kendra Trust, Kallur Megharaj.

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