Saptagiri Ulaka slams Odisha authorities over medical faculty at Rayagada

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Congress MP Saptagiri Ulaka on Friday lambasted the Odisha authorities for lacking a chance of multinational of a authorities medical faculty at Rayagada. The Lok Sabha member from Koraput stated Rayagada misplaced a chance to have a medical faculty resulting from step-motherly angle of the federal government.

While many states bought over 5 medical faculties beneath Phase-III of the Centrally sponsored scheme – Establishment of recent medical faculties connected with current district/referral hospitals, Odisha bought just one, he stated. In response to Ulaka’s zero hour point out within the Parliament on February 13 relating to organising of the medical faculty, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan just lately replied that Odisha had proposed just one medical faculty at Kalahandi and it has been sanctioned. 

“The Ministry did not receive any proposal for Rayagada at the relevant time. Since 75 medical colleges have already been approved basing on the proposals from across the states, it would not be possible to consider the one at Rayagada under the scheme,” Dr Vardhan’s written reply learn.

Ulaka had earlier met the Union Health Minister and handed him a letter urging him to approve a brand new medical faculty at Rayagada beneath Phase III of the scheme. “The State authorities had promised a medical faculty and 500-bed hospital at Rayagada beneath PPP mode in 2014.

It was one of many first medical faculty initiatives within the nation that was accredited by the Centre beneath viability grant funding help. Unfortunately, this might not take off because of the State’s negligence,” Ulaka stated. He had, nevertheless, moved the Health Ministry after the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its nod for institution of 75 further authorities medical faculties in underserved areas having no medical faculty with a desire to aspirational districts.