Good News For MBBS Aspirants: 1000 New Medical Seats to be Available to Students in Jharkhand | Details Here | Earth Indian

Ranchi: In a good news for medical aspirants, Jharkhand will get two new medical colleges as per orders of health secretary K K Soan. The medical colleges will be built in Giridih and Khunti district soon, India Today quoted Soan as saying.

The project will kick off once the land is alloted to health department in two weeks’ time. With the addition of two new colleges, Jharkhand will have a total of 10 medical colleges across the state.

Once the colleges are made, a total of 1000 new seats will be made available to students seeking admissions in MBBS courses.

As of now, Jharkhand cities such as Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Palamu, Hazaribag, Dumka, AIMS in deoghar are home to medical colleges.

Meanwhile, Odisha government had announced a recruitment of 2,000 more MBBS and BDS students for appointment in the upcoming medical colleges and peripheral hospitals. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, while announcing this through video conferencing, had said the nine new medical colleges should not face shortage of doctors and medical infrastructure.

The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) was also asked to notify the appointment of doctors at the earliest. Officials were also directed to complete projects in the health sector in coordination with different departments, Patnaik had added.

By Shivam Urkude || Earth Indian