Chief Minister Laid the Foundation Stone of Medical College in Sampan Khedi Village of Kaithal | 17 Oct 2023

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On October 16, 2023, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal laid the foundation stone of Lord Parshuram Medical College to be built at a cost of about Rs 950 crore in Sampan Khedi village of Kaithal.

Key Points:

• A target has been set to complete the construction work of Lord Parshuram Medical College on 20 acres of land in the next two and a half years.
• With the construction of a medical college in Kaithal, the people of the district as well as neighboring districts and Punjab will also benefit from it. At present, except the nearby district of Karnal, there is no medical college in any other neighboring district. After the construction of the medical college in Sampankhedi, people of Jind, Kurukshetra and Khanauri and Patra areas of Sangrur district of Punjab will also get its benefits.
• It is noteworthy that at present there is a severe lack of facilities in the District Civil Hospital. The biggest problem here is the absence of doctors. Here, out of 56 sanctioned posts, doctors are working only on 24 posts. Due to shortage of doctors, patients do not get better treatment here.
• After the completion of the construction work of the medical college in the district, there will be a lot of improvement in health services here. A 500 bed hospital will be built in the medical college itself. After getting 100 MBBS seats here, the children of the district will be able to become doctors.
• After the construction of this hospital, a large number of people will be able to come here for treatment, while the students studying in the medical college will be able to serve the public by providing better services in the hospital itself.
• On this occasion, Chief Minister Manohar Lal said that not only Haryana but the surrounding states will benefit from this college and hospital. The construction of this college was announced at the Brahmin Mahakumbh held on December 11, 2022 in Karnal.
• He said that the previous governments had created six medical colleges before 2014, which had 700 MBBS seats, but at present there are 15 medical colleges in the state and 2185 MBBS seats. In the coming time, eight new medical colleges will be established including Fatehabad, Sirsa, Charkhi Dadri, Palwal and MBBS seats will increase five times to 3500 in the next four years.