Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi promised a medical university in Nalbari on Vaishnav Incarnation Day celebration organized by Srimanta Samkaradeva Sangha in the recent past.
Now why this Medical school (see following news) is move to Guwahati? Guwahati already has a Medical College. Why do you need another? People from undivided Kamrup dies before they reach Guwahati on medical emergency. People of Nalbari are coward of scholarly or slave! If this school does not go to Nalbari, I wish that this goes to Boro Land. I wish that Hangrama works on it right away! (friends please write to Hangrama to work on it, and give your reasons why) Regards, Rabin Source - Assam Tribune http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=mar0307/at05 Medical Varsity Bill soon By A Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, March 2 – The Health Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, today said that the Government has prepared a Bill–Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences Bill, 2007, for establishing a medical university in the State and the Bill would be tabled in the Assembly during its current Budget Session. He also announced that the Government is planning to establish the University on the Narakashur hills in the city within the next financial year. Replying to a question by Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (AGP-P) in the State Assembly, Sarma said that the Government has started the process of establishment of three new medical colleges and necessary applications have been forwarded to the Government of India. He said that in the current financial year, Rs 15 crore has been sanctioned for the establishment of the colleges and permanent principals have been appointed. He said that steps have been initiated for creation of necessary posts for the colleges as per the norms of the Medical Council of India and architecture firms have been engaged for preparing the building plans. Anti Malaria programme: As malaria caused havoc all over Assam last year, the Health Department has learnt the lessons from the experience and started the anti-malaria drive from the first day of February this year. The Government also sought the cooperation of all the legislators to create awareness among all sections of people to prevent outbreak of the disease. In a written reply to a question by Keshab Mahanta (AGP) in the State Assembly today, the Health Minister said that in previous years, the spraying of DDT started in the month of April, but from this year, the Health Department started the process from February 1. He said that rapid diagnostic kits are also being provided and so far, more than 14 lakh such kits have been distributed and about one lakh kit are kept in the headquarters to be dispatched whenever needed. He informed the House that 6.32 lakh mosquito nets, provided by the Government of India, have been distributed among the people living below the poverty line in the malaria endemic areas of the State. Sarma said that coordination committees at the grass root level are being formed to create awareness among the people about the steps need to be taken to prevent the outbreak of malaria and to overcome the shortage of doctors in the malaria endemic areas, the Government has started the process of appointing ayurvedic doctors. He said that steps have been taken to fill up the vacant posts of laboratory technicians and a training programme for the technicians have also been launched. He also said that the Government already sent necessary medicines to the endemic areas to control the outbreak of malaria. The Minister admitted that shortage of doctors is turning out to be a major problem for the Health Department because of the reluctance of the doctors to serve in the rural areas. He said that the Government has decided to give extra financial incentives to the doctors posted in the rural and interior areas of Assam and hoped that this would encourage the doctors to serve in the rural areas, which in turn, would easer out the problem of shortage of doctors in the days to come. Meanwhile, in reply to another question by Dr Aditya Langthasa (AUDF), the Health Minister admitted that 227 teaching posts are lying vacant in the three medical colleges of the State.
