UP to have 13 new medical colleges: Yogi
With new depts coming up, SGPGI to have 550 more beds, says Yogi Adityanath
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said with new departments coming up at the SGPGI, the institute would have 550 more beds and this would perhaps end the problem of admissions here.
Stating that treatment of poor patients was still a challenge, he said: “We are soon going to open 13 new medical colleges in UP, but recruitment of faculty is a big problem. We can create infrastructure, but from where will we bring faculty. This problem can be solved by institutes like PGI.”
The chief minister said this while dedicating liver transplant centre and department of hematology buildings at the SGPGI to the public on Monday.
He also laid the foundation stone for the building of renal transplant centre and emergency medicine at Shruti auditorium in the presence PGI director Rakesh Kapoor and minister of health education Ashutosh Tandon.
Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister directed PGI director to open new satellite centres of the SGPGI outside Lucknow as it was not the only city of UP that needed super specialty care.
“Humans also live in other cities and they also require treatment. The government will give all help required for opening satellite centres. Today, PGI is a brand and I receive number of pleas for recommending admission to the institute,” said the chief minister
The CM said doctors should not fix quota of seeing patients every day.
THE CM DEDICATED LIVER TRANSPLANT CENTRE & DEPARTMENT OF HEMATOLOGY BUILDINGS AT THE SGPGI TO THE PUBLIC
“Doctors are called God, not because they reject patients, but because they have human touch and are sensitive enough to feel the pain of patients. They must be ready to learn every day because every patient is a subject of research for them and institutes like PGI must thank patients because of whom they are able to conduct big research,” he said.