Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa inaugurates new govt medical college in Chennai Monday Sep 07,2015

Tamil Nadu government’s 20th medical college, also the first in the city in the last 55 years, was inaugurated here on Monday Sep 07,2015 by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. inaugurated the medical college, set up at a cost of Rs 200 crore in the Omandurar Government Estate, through video conferencing from the state secretariat.

As per MCI requirements, each medical college will have to be associated with a hospital. To fulfil this requirement, the college will initially be linked with the Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children and once the 300-bedded hospital next to it is ready, and functional, possibly next year, the new college will be attached to it

This was the 20th medical college in the state and the first to be established in the state capital since 1960, an official release said.

The city has three other government medical colleges — Madras Medical College, Stanley Medical College and Kilpauk Medical College.

As many as 410 appointments, including medical and para-medical staff, besides teaching professionals had been made here, it said. The Medical Council of India (MCI) had approved admission of 100 students in MBBS course.

The number of MBBS seats in the state had increased by 710 in the last four years and stands at 2,655 presently

The government had allocated Rs 12.24 crore towards procuring required medical equipment for the college

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The Chief Minister had in 2011 announced setting up of the hospital and medical college at the site, where the previous DMK government had set up a Secretariat-Assembly complex.

In 2014 Jayalalithaa inaugurated a multi-super speciality hospital