UP Governor Anandiben Patel, CM Yogi Adityanath welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi today
Siddharth Nagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 9 Medical Colleges here today. These medical colleges are set up in the districts of Siddharthnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur. Governor and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare were also present on the occasion.
Addressing the event, Modi said with the creation of 9 new medical colleges, about two and a half thousand new beds have been created, new employment opportunities have been created for more than 5 thousand doctors and paramedics. “With this, a new path of medical education has been opened for hundreds of youth every year”, he said.
The Prime Minister said Purvanchal’s image was spoiled by the previous governments because of the tragic deaths due to meningitis. The same Purvanchal, the same Uttar Pradesh is going to give a new light of health to eastern India, Modi remarked.
The Prime Minister recalled the episode in Parliament where current Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, as the Member of Parliament, had narrated the agony of the poor medical system of the state in the Parliament. “When the government is sensitive, there is a sense of compassion in the mind to understand the pain of the poor, then such accomplishments happen”, the Prime Minister remarked.
The Prime Minister said that the dedication of so many medical colleges is unprecedented in the state. Besides, he said before 2014, the medical seats in the country were less than 90,000, and in the last 7 years, 60,000 new medical seats have been added in the country.
“Here in Uttar Pradesh too, till 2017 there were only 1900 medical seats in government medical colleges. Whereas in the government of double engine, more than 1900 seats have been increased in just the last four years,” he said.
– global bihari bureau
