Bengal hikes total number of MBBS seats to 4000

  • | Wednesday | 21st October, 2020

Kolkata: In a further boost to the health infrastructure of the state, Bengal has set another milestone by increasing the total number of MBBS seats to 4,000, an initiative taken by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The number of MBBS seats in Bengal has touched 4,000 with the initiation of the first MBBS batch in Purulia Government Medical College and Hospital consisting 100 seats and additional 150 in Gouri Devi Medical College at Durgapur in West Burdwan. Announcing the same, Banerjee tweeted on Tuesday stating: "I am pleased to announce that we now have 4,000 MBBS seats for Bengal's vibrant medical students with the initiation of the first MBBS batch in Purulia Govt MCH consisting of 100 seats & the addition of 150 MBBS seats in Gouri Devi Medical College." It includes 3,250 in 19 state-run medical colleges while the remaining in six private medical colleges. The increase of MBBS seats will be a major boost at this critical time of Covid with 4,000 MBBS doctors joining medical colleges as interns every year.

Kolkata: In a further boost to the health infrastructure of the state, Bengal has set another milestone by increasing the total number of MBBS seats to 4,000, an initiative taken by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The number of MBBS seats in Bengal has touched 4,000 with the initiation of the first MBBS batch in Purulia Government Medical College and Hospital consisting 100 seats and additional 150 in Gouri Devi Medical College at Durgapur in West Burdwan. Announcing the same, Banerjee tweeted on Tuesday stating: "I am pleased to announce that we now have 4,000 MBBS seats for Bengals vibrant medical students with the initiation of the first MBBS batch in Purulia Govt MCH consisting of 100 seats & the addition of 150 MBBS seats in Gouri Devi Medical College." This is the fifth time when the number of MBBS seats have been increased in the state since the Mamata Banerjee government came to power. Till 2011, there were only 900 MBBS seats in Bengal. With continuous efforts of the Chief Minister, it has now gone up to 4,000. It includes 3,250 in 19 state-run medical colleges while the remaining in six private medical colleges. Interestingly, the state had witnessed an increase of only 750 MBBS seats since Independence to 2011 while in just nine years of the Trinamool Congress government, the number of seats has increased by 3,100. The increase of MBBS seats will be a major boost at this critical time of Covid with 4,000 MBBS doctors joining medical colleges as interns every year. At present, there are more than 11,000 doctors in state-run hospitals while the number was only 4,500 in 2011. Similarly, the number of nurses has gone up to nearly 53,000 from 37,366 at government health establishments in the past nine years. Banerjee has repeatedly stressed the need for more doctors in the state and accordingly her government has taken steps to ensure a steady increase in the number of MBBS seats.

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