Bengaluru: Three new government medical colleges will be set up and will start functioning from the current academic year, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, while inaugurating a new emergency and trauma centre, comprehensive haemophilia centre and also a 128-slice CT Scanner at the radio diagnosis department at Victoria Hospital on Tuesday.
He inaugurated the facilities along with Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil. “The new medical colleges will be set up in Chamarajanagar, Kodagu and Karwar. The Medical Council of India has already given the approval and 900 seats will available in these colleges," Mr Siddaramaiah said. “In the budget, we promised to open six medical colleges and they will be opened in a phased manner. Poor people are opting for private hospitals for treatment and we have to get those numbers down by providing all the facilities available at a private setup," he said.
“At the comprehensive haemophilia centre, we accept hemophiliacs and provide both factor 8 and factor 9 drugs free of cost, which are otherwise very expensive,” said Dr Patil.
Equipment worth over Rs 1 crore have been given by Samsung for X-Ray, CT Scan and ultrasound, he said. The comprehensive haemophilia centre is functioning for the last two months and has done more than 300 infusions and has three nurses, three doctors, a hematologist and a counsellor. The Centre expects more than a hundred patients every day after the official inauguration.
