Patna: Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi has said that appointments will be made directly from the medical college campus to fill up the vacant posts of doctors in the next one year. In his address after the opening ceremony of the annual conference of 'Indian College of Cardiology', Sushil Modi said there is a huge shortage of doctors, nurses and mercury medical staff in the state.
Modi blamed previous governments for this, saying that during the pre-2005 regimes did not open a single new medical, nursing college in the government sector during his regime. While the current NDA government is going to open 11 new medical colleges in the state. The academic session will enroll 1400 students in medical colleges in Bihar.
Modi said that while Tamil Nadu has 49 medical colleges and 253 people have one doctor, Kerala has 34 medical colleges and 535 doctors, 57 medical colleges in Karnataka and 507 people, while Bihar has only 13 medical colleges and 3207 people. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) standard, there should be one doctor per 1000 people. There are three doctors on a thousand people in Delhi.
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