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Private medical colleges "can be set up in rural areas"

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Rs.5 crore for cathlab in the Government General Hospital

Puducherry: Health Minister E. Valsaraj has said that the Territorial Government is prepared to encourage private players coming forward to establish medical colleges in rural areas.

Declaring open a Rs.33-lakh primary health centre (PHC) in Tirukanoor, an interior village in Mannadipet Assembly constituency here on Wednesday, Mr. Valsaraj said that the health services in the Union Territory had been so impressive.

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss himself had paid rich compliments. He said that the PHC would function on two shifts: from 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

He said the per capita medical expenditure that the Government was incurring had increased to Rs.1,080 a year this year, as against Rs. 990 last year.

He said that when the Government encouraged private entrepreneurs to start medical colleges in the past, seven institutions came up here. The Government would encourage the entrepreneurs to start the colleges in rural areas, he noted.

The PHC in Tirukanoor would be having a public monitoring committee for which Rs 75,000 would be sanctioned a year to take care of facilities and basic requirements. It covers people in six villages in its vicinity.

He said that a cathlab would opened in the Department of Cardiology in the Government General Hospital at a cost of Rs.5 crore, and this would go on stream in the next three weeks.

He said that a free kidney transplant facility in the hospital had been of help to those requiring the transplant. The patients would be given drugs free of cost in the post-surgery days.

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