Private sector joins in medical education

Bhopal, May 14 (UNI) Three new dental colleges and 13 new nursing colleges have come up in Madhya Pradesh in the private sector last year as a result of the government's policy to encourage private sector for the expansion of medical education facilities.

The dental colleges have been opened at Bhopal, Indore and Burhanpur during 2006-07, official sources said today.

The state government is already running five medical colleges at Gwalior, Bhopal, Rewa, Jabalpur and Indore and a 50-seat nursing college at Indore. A new medical college is proposed to be opened at Sagar from 2007-08.

The total seats at graduate level in these medical colleges is 620, post graduate seats 311 and diploma seats 226. The number of BDS seats at the dental collge is 40 while master of dental surgery course is being offered with three seats.

Three private medical colleges with a capacity of 350 seats and ten private dental colleges with 870 seats are contributing significantly to imparting medical education under the degree and post graduate programmes, the sources said.

A total of 36 nursing colleges having 1855 seats at graduate level and 20 seats at postgraduate level are being run in private sector in the state. Till 2005-06, seven dental colleges with 620 seats were functioning in the state. the sources added.

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