To
The Honorable Prime Minister Dr Singh,
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The Honorable Chief Minister of Odisha Mr. Patnaik,
Dear Honorable Prime Minister Dr Singh,
I am glad to absorb that during 12th five-year plan union Govt. is planning to open 60 medical colleges across the country in partnership with the respective state Govt. and Odisha is set to get 4 such Govt. medical colleges by upgrading district hospitals.
It is also appreciable that Odisha Govt. and its health ministry have clearly understood the importance of such medical colleges in KBK region considering precious health scenario in this region.
State Govt. of Odisha has recently also encouraged to establish medical colleges through public sector companies, NTPC and NALCO, by up-grading district medical college in Sundergarh and Koraput respectively. Another medical college is being established by MCL at Talcher.
There was a long-standing demand in Kalahandi to establish a Government medical college.
Earlier WODC had initiated to establish a private medical college at Jaring. However, people of Kalahandi feel that the proposed private medical college would not benefit the vast number of poor as well as tribal population living in this region.
Therefore, since past decade people of Kalahandi have been appealing to the state and central Govt. to establish a Govt. medical college instead of the private one as not only private medical college does not benefit poor and tribal population but also the proposed private medical college at Jaring is extremely struggling to take up even after 8 years since signing of the MoU. Till now the private medical college lacks sufficient infrastructure, professors and facilities for which MCI has repeatedly rejected couple of times to give it approval recently.
The proposed private medical college still needs to get MCI approval. Even if the private medical college is materialised one day, it would not serve the interest of the poor and tribal people which share the substantial portion of total population in the region. It was clearly evident from the beginning of the project.
On the other hand the district hospital at Bhawanipatna has already a Regional Diagnostic Center that could easily facilitate establishment of a Govt. medical college, the way it was done for similar centers at Sundergarh, Koraput and capital hospital in Bhubaneswar.
A Govt. medical college at Bhawanipatna will give additional advantages in terms of secondary and tertiary health need for the poor in a affordable way, human resource requirement in the health department in the local level, and poor and lower middle class students in the region can access medical education unlike in the private medical college.
Out of the proposed 4 Govt. medical colleges, I appeal to you and Odisha state Govt. to take necessary step for establishing at least one of them at Bhawanipatna, which is an epicenter for all KBK districts and its people.
Thank you and best regards
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