Navsari : Navsari will get GMERS medical college which will have very good facilities and advanced equipments. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will lay the foundation stone for the new GMERS Medical College in Navsari. In the last five years, the Central Government has approved nine medical colleges in Gujarat, including AIIMS, Rajkot. This medical college will boost healthcare infrastructure and benefit the population of one crore residing in Navsari and the surrounding five districts. We will complete this project by 2024. We are equipping Government hospitals in the state with world class technology and robust healthcare facilities. I am grateful to the Hon Prime Minister for approving nine new medical colleges in Gujarat during the last five years. This improved medical infrastructure will also enable the state to become a Medical Tourism destination in the future,” Bhupendra Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat, said in a statement. Medical College to be built at a cost of Rs 542.50 crore. Spread on the area of 20 acres, this new medical college in Navsari will be constructed at a cost of Rs 542.50 crore. Apart from the cost of building the college, the Government of Gujarat, whose target is to complete the construction of this building by 2024, will additionally spend around Rs 74 crore to provide medical instruments, equipment, and other hardware. Besides, the current Government Hospital functioning on the 5 acres area in Navsari will also be upgraded. Providing technical details of the new medical college, Manoj Agarwal (IAS), Additional Chief Secretary, Health Department, Government of Gujarat said, “This medical college has been developed as a Tertiary Care Hospital with a facility of 446 beds. The entire building will be equipped with modern facilities which includes: seven Major Operation Theaters; nine Minor Operation Theaters; seven Intensive Care Units; six Dedicated ICU beds of total 30 beds with state-of-the-art emergency medical department for IPD along with OPD facility for almost all diseases; Blood bank with Component Separation facilities; pharmacy; clinical laboratories; 26 general wards; and 13 outpatient departments.”
This medical college will also witness recruitment of new 725 medical staff which comprises 125 doctors and about 600 nurses and other technical staff. In addition, every year, around 100 students will be able to pursue MBBS from this college. With the approval to nine new medical colleges, nearly 5,800 MBBS seats have increased in Gujarat over the last five years and it is estimated that in the coming days, about 6,500 doctors, nurses and other technical staff will be also be recruited in these medical colleges.
