Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann laid the muse stone of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Authorities Medical School in Nawashahr on Sunday. To be constructed at the price of ₹300 crore, the medical faculty will supply 50 MBBS seats, he mentioned whereas addressing the gathering throughout a state-level perform to mark the demise anniversary of freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. The faculty’s building can be accomplished inside 36 months.
As per officers, the medical faculty can be hooked up to the civil hospital, with specialists and super-specialists obtainable round the clock. (HT Photograph)
The medical faculty can be hooked up to the civil hospital. With the school’s institution, specialists and super-specialists can be obtainable round the clock, a authorities assertion talked about.
“Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar is a remote district with limited access to tertiary healthcare facilities, but successive governments ignored this region, forcing patients to travel to Ludhiana, Jalandhar or Chandigarh. This college will reduce patient burden on referral hospitals by offering advanced care locally and train future doctors in a rural setting, encouraging them to serve the local population,” Mann mentioned.
The CM added that the youth earlier travelled to Ukraine and Russia for medical research. “The college will enhance medical education as local students will no longer have to leave the district for medical studies,” he mentioned.
“The Punjab government will ensure timely construction and infrastructure development, additional funding for expanding hospital services,” a authorities assertion talked about.
“This is not a political function but a solemn occasion to pay tributes to those who had sacrificed their lives for the sake of motherland. The state government is making concerted efforts to perpetuate the legacy of these legendary figures for the coming generations,” he mentioned.
The CM reminded that resulting from strenuous efforts of the state authorities, the airport in Mohali has been named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh. “None of the previous governments had bothered about naming this airport after the revolutionary,” he mentioned.
The CM additionally mentioned that his authorities had devoted the Nishan-e-Inquilaab Plaza to folks which homes 30 ft excessive bronze statue of the liberty fighter on the airport highway in Mohali.
“The dreams of Shaheed-e-Azam still remain unfulfilled as corruption, nepotism and poverty still rule the roost. Those who came into power after Britishers plundered the country more mercilessly than the foreigners. Loads of cash have been recovered from houses of higher officers and judges,” he mentioned with out naming anybody.
The CM additionally felicitated the members of the family of the Bhagat Singh. The liberty fighter, together with Rajguru and Sukhdev, had opposed the British rule in India. They have been hanged on today in 1931.