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PATNA: Health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey
on Thursday said infrastructural facilities for two new medical
colleges in the state at Madhepura and Bettiah were in the last stage of
completion. Accordingly, the new medical college at Madhepura would
become functional from next year.
Choubey, who was giving the
government's reply to the debate in the state assembly on his
department's over Rs 3,356 crore budgetary demand for 2013-14, added
that a new medical college had become functional on the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences
(IGIMS) campus. He also said the Union health ministry had sanctioned
opening of a regional para medical institute at Bhagalpur.
The
House passed the department's budgetary demand by voice vote after
Independent member Jyoti Rashmi moved a cut motion. Earlier, opposition
members led by leader of opposition Abdul Bari Siddiqui walked out of
the House when Choubey proposed his department's budgetary demand for
the House debate.
Choubey said even though the state was
acutely short of doctors, the government had taken steps to improve the
healthcare system in the state, which had led to substantial increase in
the treatment of patients at each of 530 primary health centres (PHCs) -
to an average of 9,000 patients per month.
"The government
still needs 4,000 doctors. Doctors recruited on contract will be
regularized over the next five years. Besides, the services of nursing
staff will also be regularized on the basis of assessment of their
services," Choubey added.
Earlier, science and technology
minister Shahid Ali Khan said e-governance would be extended to all the
districts by 2016. As of date, four districts - Nalanda, Gaya,
Aurangabad and Madhubani - have been put on information technology (IT)
network. An IT park is coming up at Bihta under PPP mode, he added.
source:TNN
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