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Private players can use state hosps to run med colleges

TNN | Sep 14, 2021, 04.56 AM IST

Kolkata: The Bengal cabinet has decided on Monday to allow private players to operate medical colleges and use state
government hospitals for the teaching of MBBS students so that the state can get more private medical colleges, said chief
secretary, HK Dwivedi. However, charges will have to be paid to teach students at the hospital for five years while the contract
for using it further can also be reviewed by the state government.
Dwivedi said that six new medical colleges are coming up in the state but to cope with the dearth of doctors, the state cabinet
decided to allow the private players to use the government hospitals. He said that they need a 300-bedded hospital for a
medical college to be functional but it takes time. To start medical colleges, the infrastructure of government hospitals can be
utilised. This decision was approved by the state cabinet on Monday.

The chief secretary said that the decision had been taken last year but now some norms, including user charge, were
amended. He said that even for setting up private nursing colleges, the state government hospital with 100 beds can be used
by the private players. However, there is a norm that 25% of the seats in nursing colleges are to be reserved as government
quota. Dwivedi said the steps had been taken as per the guidelines of the national medical commission.

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