'Every govt medical college in Maharashtra to have affiliated nursing college'

Every government medical college in Maharashtra will have an affiliated nursing college Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan said here on FridayHe was speaking at an event organised at the Government Medical College here to create awareness about organ donationEvery medical college in the state will have an affiliated nursing college he said adding that the intention was to create a pool of adequate number of trained nursesThe government has received a proposal to upgrade the health facility at Paithan in the district from 30 to 100 beds and it will be considered positively he saidUnion minister Dr Bhagwat Karad who hails from Aurangabad district and Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel were also present at the eventReferring to Karads demand that doctors vacancies at government hospitals in the state be filled up by hiring on contract basis Mahajan said Posts of 1432 residential doctors have been sanctioned 778 doctors have been interviewed and they will join service soonAs many as 5056 vacancies of group D and C employees will be filled up the minister said adding that overall nearly 15000 posts will be filled up within two monthsOn organ donation Mahajan said in the West 3500 in every 10000 persons donate organs while the ratio is just one in 10000 in IndiaAlso Read Govt to launch special scheme to provide financial support to prisoners MHATherefore organ donation should become a movement and not just remain an event Mahajan saidJaleel in his speech pointed out that the government was setting up more medical colleges but had not recruited enough teaching staffIt is good that the BJP government has taken a decision to set up medical colleges in all districts But The state government published a notification ordering existing staff to go to other districts as inspection by the National Medical Commission was scheduled he claimedIf there are so many vacancies of teaching staff in existing medical colleges then constructing buildings only will not work There should be teaching staff in medical colleges This cheating should stop and the government should accept openly that we have vacancies Jaleel saidHe also questioned delay in the appointment of class 4 staff at the Government Medical College AurangabadThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever