Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.
Sahyog Foundation, a city-based non-profit organization, would invest Rs 1100 crore in setting up a medicity spread over 300 acres at Jagatpur near Cuttack as well as a medical college and hospital at Keonjhar.
The amount will be raised by the foundation through a mix of debt and contributions from the promoters and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs).
The Keonjhar project which is being taken up on the public private partnership (PPP) mode at an investment of Rs 200 crore will have a medical college with an intake of 50 seats to begin with and a 300-bed hospital.
Debasis Sahoo, director, Sahyog Foundation said, “We will sign the MoU … with the Orissa government for setting up the medical college and hospital at Keonjhar by the end of this month. Apart from alloting 20 acres of land free of cost, the state government has also given us an incentive grant of Rs 10 crore for the project.”
Construction work on the proposed medical college and hospital at Keonjhar is set to take off in April this year and the first batch of students for the MBBS course will be admitted in 2011.
“While the hospital at Keonjhar will offer treatment in various super specialties, the focus will be on malaria ad tuberculosis. Seventy per cent of the beds in this hospital will be reserved for the BPL (Below Poverty Line) families.”
… The medical college and hospital at Keonjhar will offer direct employment opportunities to 3000 people.
For its Rs 900-crore medicity project at Jagatpur, Sahyog Foundation has started the process of land acquisition. The medicity project is expected to be operational by 2014.
Besides a 150-seater medical college and a 700-bed hospital, the medicity will have a homeopathic college, an Ayurvedic college and other public amenities like a shopping mall, gymnasium, swimming pool and food court.
… Apart from generating around 5000 direct jobs, the medicity will also create indirect employment for 150000 people.
Similar news was reported earlier (for example here) but the numbers in those early reports did not make sense.
Similarly there have been news reports (see here and here) about a US based group called Euthenic Group consortium that wants to set up a 1000 bed super speciality hospital in Orissa. However, after seeing the webpage of Euthenic Group (see http://euthenicgroup.com/) I don’t have a good feeling on this. Also I don’t understand what is meant when expressbuzz says the following:
After completion of the project, it will be handed over to the State Government. The hospital will be the property of the State Government.
It does not quite make financial sense that this group will make an hospital and then hand it over to the state government at the end of the completion of project. May be by "at the completion of project" they mean after a long long time; say 30 years.
February 18th, 2010
February 14th, 2010
Update3: From Samaja – 10% seats will be reserved for students from Odisha.
Update2: From Dharitri
Update: Business Standard has more details on this. Following are some excerpts.
Speaking on the occasion, Patnaik said, … “IIPH, in consultation with the state government, will impart training programmes for enhancing the capacity of the public health functionaries across all levels. The institute will offer Post-Graduate diploma programmes in Public Health Management, Health Economics, Health Care Financing, Health Policy, Biostatistics and Data Management. In addition, IIPH will conduct two-year diploma course in Public Health and Masters in Public Health”, he added.
… Reddy, the PHFI president, said, “Once the IIPH campus is fully operational, it will offer training short-term training programmes to 500 people and long-term training to 300 others.
As per the IIPH web pages currently the following courses are offered by the existing IIPHs.
- Delhi: PG Diploma in (a) Clinical Research (b) Public Health Management and (c) Health Economics, Health Care Financing and Health Policy
- Hyderabad: PG Diploma in (a) Biostatistics and Data Management
- Gandhinagar: PG Diploma in (a) Public Health Management
Earlier when it was announced that PHFI centers will open in Bhubaneswar and Balasore it was not clear what kind of center it would be. (See also here and here.) Following is an excerpt from a PTI report that says an IIPH will start in Bhubaneswar this July.
Orissa will soon get an Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) here which will start functioning from July this year.
An MoU in this regard was signed between the state government and the New Delhi-based Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) for establishment of an IIPH here at an investment of Rs 140 crore.
"The institute will deal in education, training and research on prioritised health problems of the state," Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said while attending a function on the occasion.
While the state government had agreed to give 40 acres of land free of cost at Kumarbasta village near here to establish the IIPH, the PHFI would invest the money for the purpose, Patnaik said.
Considering the real need with respect to containing Cholera, Malaria and other diseases that frequently break out in the hinterlands the IIPH in Bhubaneswar must establish branches in the hinterlands of Odisha.
February 10th, 2010
February 8th, 2010
Following is an excerpt from a report in Expressbuzz.com.
The Central University here will soon set up a medical college and hospital in Koraput. Vice-Chancellor Surobhi Benerjee announced this in a release today.
The university is now in the process of submitting the detailed project report (DPR) to the appropriate authorities.
She also said there would be a detailed discussion with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in this regard tomorrow.
Moreover, the university is going to start a school for bio-diversity and conservation of natural resources in collaboration with M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai.The authorities of the MSSRF have agreed to provide all support in establishing the school and run collaborative PG programmes. …
COMMUNITY RADIO: Besides, the university will set up a community radio station in Koraput for the development of the tribal community. A proposal for commissioning the radio station had been submitted to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The university is also going to set up a centre for community welfare in Koraput.
SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCE: Further, the university will sign an MoU with Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, in the area of nursing and public/ community health for its proposed school of health science (Nursing, public health and community health).
February 2nd, 2010
February 1st, 2010
Following are excerpts from a report in http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/03/stories/2010010360571100.htm that points out some schemes taken up by some of the states in India.
- Chhattisgarh has adopted the three-year-doctor scheme – now the post is called rural medical assistant — to almost completely eliminate vacancies among medical officers.
- Sikkim looked at measures addressing professional and social isolation by building a positive workforce environment – continuing medical education (CME) programmes and turning primary health centres into social hubs.
- Locale-based selection and a special short-term expansion of nursing school capacity under private-public partnership have led to a strategy of filling 10,000 auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) vacancies within four years in West Bengal. West Bengal has focussed on an innovative increase of ANM education. It needed 10,000 more ANMs to close gaps and put a second ANM in place. In the last one year 2,761 new ANMs passed out of 41 schools. In addition, locality-based selection by panchayats has ensured that the candidates are residents of the areas of work.
On the same theme, recently there were reports about a new program proposed by the health ministry and the medical council of India called `Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery’ (BRMS). Following is an excerpt from a report in Times of India about this.
Under the scheme, the undergraduate `Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery’ (BRMS) degree would be acquired in two phases and at two different levels — Community Health Facility (one-and-a-half year duration) and sub-divisional hospitals (secondary level hospitals) for a further duration of two years.
The BRMS degree would be offered by institutes in rural areas with an annual sanctioned strength of 50 students. "Selection of students would be based on merit in the 10+2 examination with physics, chemistry and biology as subjects. A student who has had his entire schooling in a rural area with a population not more than 10,000 would be eligible for selection, which would be done by professional bodies set up by the Directorate of Medical Education of the state governments," the scheme noted.
This was further discussed in an opinion piece in TOI. Following is an excerpt.
The current proposal seeks to churn out general practitioners for rural India. Hence the move to reduce the duration of the degree course from five and a half to three and a half years. This, in a way, seems to be a revival of the Licentiate Medical Practitioners (LMP) scheme that prevailed before independence whereby students were trained as medical doctors for around three years, awarded a diploma and then fulfilled the needs of rural healthcare as a way to bridge the gap between demand and supply of licensed medical practitioners outside metropolitan India. LMPs, in fact, outnumbered MBBS graduates and they were largely serving in the rural areas.
In the US they have Nurse Practitioners who can substitute doctors for many tasks. See this Boston Globe article about Nurse Practitioners (NP) and also this site about where nurse practitioner programs are offered.
I like the idea to have medical positions in rural areas which requires a lower or different qualification than MBBS. However, the name `Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery’ (BRMS) is not good as it suggests that rural medicine is something different from regular medicine. Similarly the restriction on who can pursue this degree, although well meaning, is discriminatory. So my suggestion would be the following:
- Call it something like LMP or NP instead of BRMS.
- Don’t make it completely for a restricted class of people as mentioned with respect to BRMS above. Have a good percentage reserved for those people; but not exclusively for them.
- However, positions requiring those qualification should only be available in rural areas so that when someone takes those programs they know that they can only get jobs in rural areas. So they are mentally prepared for it.
- But there should be a new program that someone with LPM/NP/BRMS can take after say 10 years of job experience so as to get an MBBS equivalent degree. This will allow for an upward career path; but after 10 years of job experience.
- Offer these programs and other associated nursing and health assistant programs widely in all sub-division hospitals. Part of the program may be required to be done in a regular medical college to give wider exposure.
- These programs should have strong public health components.
January 5th, 2010
Following is from Samaja.
This creates an interesting situation. On one hand Rourkela is really the right location for the ESIC Medical college; but on the other hand changing of an already announced location can be dangerous in that it opens up other attempts to change other locations. No announcement of a location will be safe as people from other aspiring areas will keep trying to change it and some of that may result in instability and chaos.
While ESIC medical college case is a very very special case, and we tried to make that case, it seems to be very difficult to make people understand that. Even we have failed in that in these pages.
That may be one of the reasons Orissa government is being stubborn on the ESIC Medical college case.
As the Telangana case illustrates how one decision can have snowball effect on the rest of the country, unless the ESIC case is carefully handled (by all sides) it can create chaos across the state.
December 27th, 2009
Following is an excerpt from a report in expressbuzz.com.
There is an unprecedented response for tenders for the construction of new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-type medical institutions in Patna, Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur and Rishikesh.
Sources in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare sais around 160 construction companies joined the bidding making it more competitive.
Thanks to the incentive package, if the construction of the institute is completed within the stipulated time or little in advance of the scheduled time, the company would get benefit of Rs 10 crore at one stroke. As per the detailed project report, construction cost of each institution, which comprises the medical colleges and the hospital, is around Rs 300 crore and for the all the six institutes, the cost would be around Rs 1800 crore.
December 26th, 2009
Update: Samaja also reports on it.
December 22nd, 2009
On 22nd October 2009 Prashant babu had filed an RTI with the following questions:
- What are the reasons for choosing Bhubaneshwar, Odisha as the location for ESIC Medical College and Hospital, when Rourkela and its nearby areas are having the largest number of ESIC Insured Persons (ESIC Employees)?
- On what ground Bolangir, Odisha was not considered as a location for the ESIC Medical College and Hospital?
- Whether Rourkela as a location for ESIC Medical College proposed by Govt. of Odisha? If so please specify the date of such porposal? Who had sent the proposal (Name of the person/officer)?
- If Rourkela was proposed, then on what ground it was not considered by ESIC for setting up the Medical College and Hospital?
He has now received the response. They are as follows:
- Govt. of Orissa has offered 25 acres of land at Bhubaneshwar for setting up medical college by ESI Corporation.
- There was no such proposal for consideration.
- Govt. of Orissa has not proposed Rourkela as a location for ESIC medical college.
- Not applicable.
Different people are interpreting this different ways. My interpretation is as follows:
- It is clear now that Orissa government plays a crucial role in deciding on the location of the ESIC medical college. The center may still say yes or no to a proposed location but it does not seem to have the power to propose a location on its own. This means the CM needs to be convinced. (That is why it was a big step to get the hint that the CM is now aware of the issue. However, it remains to be seen how accurate that information is.)
- Newspaper reports can not be trusted completely. From first hand experience I know that if there is a paper about X in the desk of a secretary some news papers have printed it as Orissa government has a proposal for X. There have been times where an email I sent to the government, which happen to lie in the desk of a secretary, has later appeared in the news papers as an Orissa government proposal whereas in reality my email printout probably went to some file (at best) or the dust bin. So my analysis is that somebody in Orissa government mentioned the name Balangir in the ESIC medical college context and it probably never made it out of the Orissa government; but regardless the newspapers printed about it. Its also possible that somebody on purpose gave wrong or misleading information to the media.
In any case, Prashant babu desreves thanks for using the RTI mechanism to get these answers. Now it is clear where the buck stops on this matter (the CM) and where the efforts should be concentrated on (the CM). With the reluctance of the Rourkela MLA and the Labor Minister to bring this issue to the CM, some other way to access the CM and convince him about Rourkela needs to be found.
December 14th, 2009
Following is from http://www.orissa.gov.in/health_portal/index.html.
Medical & Dental Colleges:
| Government Colleges |
| Sl.No. |
Name of the College |
Location |
Intake Capacity
|
| |
|
|
MBBS |
BDS |
| 1 |
S.C.B. Medical College |
Cuttack |
150 |
20 |
| 2. |
M.K.C.G. Medical College |
Berhampur |
150 |
– |
| 3. |
V.S.S. Medical College |
Sambalpur |
150 |
– |
Ayurvedic Colleges:
Government Institutions
|
Sl
|
Name of the Institute
|
Location
|
Courses Offered
|
Duration of The Course
|
Intake Capacity
|
|
1
|
Gopabandhu Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya
|
Puri
|
B.A.M.S.
|
5.5 years
|
30
|
|
2
|
Kaviraj Ananta Tripathy Sharma Ayurveda College, Akuspur
|
Akuspur, Berhampur
Ganjam
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
|
3
|
Government Ayurveda College
|
Bolangir
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
Private Institutions:
|
Sl
|
Name of the Institute
|
Location
|
Courses Offered
|
Duration of The Course
|
Intake Capacity
|
|
1
|
Mayurbhanj Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya
|
Baripada ,
Mayurbhanj
|
B.A.M.S.
|
5.5 years
|
30
|
|
2
|
Sri Sri Nrusingha Nath Ayurveda College & Research Institute
|
Paikmal , Baragarh
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
|
3
|
Indira Gandhi Memorial Ayurveda College & Hospital
|
Bhubaneswar
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
Homeopathic Colleges:
Government Institutions
|
Sl
|
Name of the Institute
|
Location
|
Courses Offered
|
Duration of The Course
|
Intake Capacity
|
|
1
|
Dr.Avirna Chandra Homeopathy Medical College & Hospital
|
Bhubaneswar
|
B.H.M.S.
|
5.5 Years
|
25
|
|
2
|
Orissa Medical College of Homeopathy & Research
|
Sambalpur
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
|
3
|
Utkalmani Homeopathy Medical College & Hospital
|
Rourkela
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
|
4
|
Biju Pattnaik Homeopathy Medical College & Hospital
|
Berhampur
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
Private Institutions:
|
Sl
|
Name of the Institute
|
Location
|
Courses Offered
|
Duration of The Course
|
Intake Capacity
|
|
1
|
Mayurbhanj Homeopathy Medical College & Hospital
|
Baripada
|
B.H.M.S.
|
5.5 Years
|
30
|
|
2
|
Cuttack Medical College of Homeopathy
|
Cuttack
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
-do-
|
Nursing Colleges:
|
BSc. Nursing Course in Government & Private College of Nursing
|
|
Sl. No.
|
Name of the College
|
Total Seats
|
|
1
|
College of Nursing, Berhampur
|
20
|
|
2
|
College of Nursing, Cuttack
|
20
|
|
3
|
SUM Nursing College, Bhubaneswar
|
20
|
|
4
|
Lord Jagannath Mission’s College of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
30
|
|
5
|
Neelachal Institute of Medical Science, Bhubaneswar
|
15
|
|
6
|
Manjari Devi College of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
20
|
|
7
|
Sushree Institute of Technical Education, CON, Bolangir
|
20
|
|
8
|
VISWAS College of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
25
|
|
9
|
Hi-Tech School of Nursing, Pandra, Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar
|
30
|
|
10
|
Gajapati College of Nursing, Parala Khemundi, Gajapati
|
20
|
|
11
|
Jagannath Institute of Medical Scinece & Research, College of Nursing, Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar
|
25
|
|
12
|
Sri Vidya Niketan College of Medical Science & Research, Nayapalli, Bhubaeswar
|
20
|
| |
TOTAL
|
265
|
| Diploma Course in General Nursing and Midwifery Training |
|
Sl. No.
|
Name of the College
|
Total Seats
|
|
1
|
School of Nursing, SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack
|
100
|
|
2
|
School of Nursing, VSS Medical College Hospital, Burla
|
50
|
|
3
|
School of Nursing, MKCG Medical College Hospital, Berhampur
|
50
|
|
4
|
Nursing Training Institute (N.T.I.), I.G.H., SAIL, Rourkela
|
40
|
|
5
|
School of Nursing, N.S.C. Hospital, M.C.L., Talcher
|
10 + 10
|
|
6
|
SUM Nursing School, Bhubaneswar
|
20
|
|
7
|
Lord Jagannath Mission’s School of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
25
|
|
8
|
Kalinga Nursing School, Kalinga Hospital, Bhubaneswar
|
20
|
|
9
|
School of Nursing KIIT, Bhubaneswar
|
15
|
|
10
|
Sushree Institute of Technical Education, SON, Bolangir
|
20
|
|
11
|
Sushila Devi School of Nursing, Nuapada
|
20
|
|
12
|
Manjari Devi School of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
20
|
|
13
|
Hi-Tech School of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
20
|
|
14
|
Neelachal School of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
10
|
|
15
|
Mahavir School of Nursing, Cuttack
|
20
|
|
16
|
VISWASS School of Nursing, Bhubaneswar
|
20
|
|
17
|
New Hope Society School of Nursing, Berhampur
|
20
|
|
|
TOTAL
|
480
|
Pharmacy Colleges:
|
Government Colleges
|
|
Sl. No.
|
Name of the College
|
Total Seats |
|
1
|
Pharmacy Wing, SCB Medical College, Cuttack
|
60
|
|
Private College
|
|
Sl. No.
|
Name of the College
|
Total Seats
|
|
1
|
College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ballguall, Puri
|
60
|
|
2
|
College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mohuda, Berhampur
|
60
|
|
3
|
Gayatri College of Pharmacy, Jamadarapali, Sambalpur
|
60
|
|
4
|
Herbal Cross Institute of Pharmacy, Mahanadi Barrage Road, Nimpur, Jagatpur, Cuttack
|
40
|
|
5
|
Indira Gandhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bhubaneswar
|
60
|
|
6
|
Institute of Medical Technology, Gopalpur, Puri
|
60
|
|
7
|
Institute of Pharmacy & Technology, Salipur, Cuttack
|
60
|
|
8
|
Jeypore College of Pharmacy, Jeypore, Koraput
|
60
|
|
9
|
Kanaka Manjari Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rourkela, Sundargarh
|
60
|
|
10
|
Maa Mangala College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Karanjia, Mayurbhanj
|
60
|
|
11
|
Mayurbhanj Medical Academy, Baripada, Mayurbhanj
|
60
|
|
12
|
Maruti Pharmacy College, Kalimandir Chowk, Bargarh
|
40
|
|
13
|
Orissa College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mahuli Pada, Dhenkanal
|
60
|
|
14
|
Om Sai College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Gopalpur on Sea, Ganjam
|
60
|
|
15
|
Pranabandhu Institute of Paramedical Sciences & Technology, Angul
|
60
|
|
16
|
Patitapabana Institute of Pharmaceutical Scineces % Tech. Gangapada, Bhubaneswar
|
60
|
|
17
|
Roland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Berhampur
|
60
|
|
18
|
Royal College of Pharmacy and Helath Sciences, Berhampur
|
60
|
|
19
|
Seemanta Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jharpokharia, Mayurbhanj
|
60
|
|
20
|
Sidheswar College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amarda Road, Balasore
|
60
|
|
21
|
Sri Jayadev College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naharkanta, Khurda
|
60
|
|
22
|
Sivananda College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Near Engineering College Square, Panda Colony, Berhampur
|
60
|
|
23
|
The College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tamando, Khurda
|
60
|
|
24
|
The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Tech., Padmapur, Bahugram, Cuttack
|
60
|
|
25
|
The Pharmaceutical College, Barpali, Bargarh
|
60
|
|
26
|
Gayatri Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gunpur, Rayagada
|
40
|
|
27
|
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Balasore
|
60
|
|
28
|
Dadhichi College of Pharmacy, Vidya Vihar, Sundergram, Cuttack
|
60
|
|
29
|
Hi-Tech College of Pharmacy, Pandara, Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar
|
40
|
|
30
|
Gajapati College of Pharmacy, Ranipendha, Paralakhemundi, Gajapati
|
40
|
|
31
|
Kalinga Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nuasahi, Balia, Balasore
|
40
|
|
32
|
Balakrushna College of Pharmacy, Nuapada
|
40
|
|
|
TOTAL
|
1840
|
December 10th, 2009
Following is an excerpt from a report in tathya.in.
Chief Minister has now demanded the Government of India to favour with a Dental and Nursing College for the Steel City, said official sources.
State Government in the Department of Labour & Employment (DOLE) has asked the Ministry of Labour to set up the facilities in Rourkela keeping in view the long standing demand of the people.
After Rourkela has been sidetracked for a Medical College & Hospital, the State Government has initiated the move to set up Dental College and College of Nursing in the city.
…Nearest Hospital for them is Sambalpur and IPs require frequent references for their dental problems.
Further there is extreme shortage of nursing staff in the health institutions of the state including ESI Medical Institutions.
So both Dental and Nursing College is needed, said Satya Prakash Nanda, Development Commissioner.
Mr.Nanda has taken up the issue with P C Chaturvedi, the Union Secretary Labour & Employment.
It has been agreed that ESIC would consider opening up of a Dental College and College of Nursing at Rourkela.
Investment in both the institutions will be around Rs.100 crores, said Sardar Jagar Singh, Secretary Labour & Employment.
Mr.Singh said that he has brought it to the notice of C D Kedar, the Director General ESIC.
Although a dental and nursing college (if it happens) is better than nothing, but it still does not seem to address the issue fairly. If there are more ESI insured people around Rourkela, the medical college should be established there. If there is some real logical reason why the medical college is being made in Bhubaneswar then the officials involved should spell that out.
December 9th, 2009
The new links are:
Setting up of 6 AIIMS at Bhopal/Bhubaneshwar/Jodhpur/Patna/Raipur/Rishikesh / Important Information / Amendment -1
Clicking on the first one takes us to the page http://mohfw.nic.in/Index6aiims.htm which has the following.
Name of Work
Setting up of Six AIIMS at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh
Section – 1 Notice Inviting Tender for Six AIIMS Projects under PMSSY Scheme (as published in News Papers on 2nd Nov 2009).
Section – 2 Volume – 1 (Notice Inviting Tender & Instructions to Tenderers )
Section – 3 Contact Officials for each AIIMS Site
| AIIMS-Bhubaneswar |
Sh. Chitranjan Nanda, SE |
09433892952 |
AIIMS-Bhubaneshwar, Near Biju Patnaik Police Academy, Village-Sijua, Bhubaneshwar-751019, Orissa |
| Sh. Satwant Singh Sallan, PE(HLL) |
09776245188 |
The second links takes to the pdf document that states that the submission date is extended till 23rd December 2009.
December 8th, 2009
Following is from Dharitri.
Following is from Samaja.
December 6th, 2009
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