16 medical colleges to be set up: Yogi Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has pledged to set up medical colleges in the 16 districts which don’t have any at present. The colleges will come into being in the next six months by way of the public-private partnership or PPP mode.

“After 70 years of Independence, there were 12 state medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh. With the co-operation of the Centre and the state government using its own resources, in 2020-21, around 32 medical colleges were built or were given approval,” he said.

“In 16 districts, where there are no medical colleges, the state government is planning to establish medical colleges through the PPP mode in the next six months,” he said in Deoria. He was speaking during the inspection of the Maharshi Devraha Baba Medical College.

In a statement, Adityanath promised that all the 75 districts of the state will have a medical college in the future, adding that 14 new medical colleges are being built in 2021-22 alone.

The Chief Minister lamented the sorry condition of healthcare in the state. While just a dozen new medical colleges were set up between 1947 and 2016, in the last four years as many as 32 new medical colleges were built, Adityanath said.