Taking medical and health services a step forward, chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday inaugurated five government medical colleges with physically inaugurating Vizianagaram government medical college in Vizianagaram town and four others-Eluru, Nandyal, Machilipatnam and Rajahmundry in a virtual mode.
Addressing students after the inaugural ceremony in the presence of ministers and MLAs, the chief minister said serious efforts were being put to improve the health services so as to reach every village in the State.
“I request you to work for at least one year in a government hospital supplementing the regular doctors so that more people can be benefitted,” the chief minister said.
He said the new medical colleges were being developed with a sole aim of providing good medical services free of cost and close to their homes.
Elaborating on adding strength of doctors in the State, the chief minister said there were only 11 medical colleges from 1947 till 2019 with 966 seats and that would go up to 4,735 seats by the time all the 17 colleges were completed by the end of 2026.
Similarly, the nursing seats were being increased from existing 1090 seats to 2,290 seats by constructing 18 more nursing colleges.
He said the existing 11 medical colleges’ infrastructure facilities were being increased by spending Rs 3,826 crore under Nadu –Nedu programme.
Among the services, the chief minister said 10,032 village clinics and 542 urban health centers were established for curative treatment to preventive care under the family doctors concept.
All general hospitals have medicines prescribed by WHO and GMP.
Mentioning the expansion of Arogyasri health insurance scheme, the chief minister said 3,255 procedures including cancer were being treated now which was earlier 1,050.Similarly the referral hospital has increased from 900 to 2,258 hospitals during the last four years.
