Maharashtra Government Approves Medical Colleges in 9 Districts

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government has given its nod to a major educational project that will build medical colleges in nine districts. This project has been signed off with a budget of Rs 4,336 crores, as per Indian Express. The Maharashtra government had announced 12 medical colleges in its previous budget, out of which nine have been sanctioned in this project alone. Girish Mahajan, the states Medical Education Minister said, “The medical colleges will help in producing efficient and specialized doctors. This will not only help in providing timely treatments but also address the issue of shortages of doctors in the state.”

A noteworthy aspect of this project is that a majority of these medical colleges will be set up in the Vidarbha region, which faces an acute shortage of medical colleges and facilities. The nine districts which will get these medical colleges to include Gadchiroli, Palghar, Thane, Amravati, Bhandara, Buldhana, Washim, Wardha and Jalna. This initiative of the Maharashtra government will thus provide relief to not only the patients from the Vidarbha region and other districts who come to Mumbai for treatment but also reduce the workload from the city’s health structure.