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Home | India | Country Needs At Least 600 Medical Colleges 50 Aiims Like Institutions Gadkari

Country needs at least 600 medical colleges, 50 AIIMS-like institutions: Gadkari

By PTI
Published: Updated On - 03:28 PM, Sat - 25 September 21
Country needs at least 600 medical colleges, 50 AIIMS-like institutions: Gadkari
File Photo: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari

Pune: The country needs at least 600 medical colleges, 50 AIIMS-like institutions and 200 super-specialty hospitals, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday as he called for the need to replicate the infrastructure development sector’s public-private partnership model in the health care and education sectors.

The Road Transport and Highways Minister was speaking at the felicitation of COVID-19 warriors in Karad city of Maharashtra’s Satara district.

He said the cooperative sector should also come forward to set up medical facilities.
“Once during a discussion with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, I told him about the scarcity of ventilators. He asked me how many ventilators were there in the country, to which I replied there must be around 2.5 lakh. But he told me that there were only 13,000 ventilators when the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the country,” Gadkari said.

There was lack of oxygen, beds, and other medical facilities at that time. But doctors, paramedical, nurses helped a lot in those times, he said, adding, “I appreciate their work.” Apart from the government-run hospitals, the contribution of medical facilities set up by the cooperative and private sectors was commendable, the minister said.

“The public-private investment model in the road and infrastructure development sector can be replicated in health care and education sectors. The country needs a minimum of 600 medical colleges, 50 AIIMS-like institutions and 200 super-specialty hospitals. The government is also thinking of providing help to those social organisations that work in medical and education sectors,” Gadkari said.

He also stressed the need to have at least one veterinary hospital in every tehsil.

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