Girish Mahajan was speaking at a program organized to create awareness on organ donation at the Government Medical College (Representational image)
Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan said the government has received a proposal to upgrade the health facility at Paithan in the district from 30 to 100 beds and it will be considered positively.
Every Government Medical College in Maharashtra shall have an affiliated Nursing College, Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan said here on Friday.
He was speaking at a program organized at the Government Medical College here to create awareness about organ donation.
“Each medical college in the state will have an affiliated nursing college,” he said, adding that the intention was to create a pool of trained nurses in adequate numbers.
He said that the government has received a proposal to increase the health facility from 30 to 100 beds at Paithan in the district and it would be considered positively.
Union Minister Dr. Bhagwat Karad, who hails from Aurangabad district, and Aurangabad MP Imtiyaz Jaleel were also present in the event.
Referring to Karad’s demand that vacant posts of doctors in state government hospitals should be filled on contract basis, Mahajan said, “1,432 posts of residential doctors have been sanctioned, 778 doctors have been interviewed and they are Will join service soon. The minister said that 5,056 vacancies of Group D and C employees will be filled, in total, around 15,000 posts will be filled within two months.
On organ donation, Mahajan said that in the West, 3,500 out of every 10,000 people donate organs, while in India the ratio is only one in 10,000.
“Hence, organ donation should become a movement and not just a program,” Mahajan said.
Jalil pointed out in his speech that the government was setting up more medical colleges but had not recruited enough teaching staff.
He said, it is a good thing that the BJP government has decided to set up medical colleges in all the districts. (But) the state government published a notification ordering existing employees to move to other districts as inspection by the National Medical Commission was scheduled,” he claimed.
“If so many posts of teaching staff are vacant in the existing medical colleges, then just building the building will not work. There should be teaching staff in medical colleges. This hoax must stop and the government must openly admit that we have vacancies,” Jalil said.
He also questioned the delay in appointment of Class IV employees in Government Medical College, Aurangabad.
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