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Jharkhand Health Minister urges Harsh Vardhan to lift admission ban on 3 medical colleges ANI | Updated: Dec 30, 2020 23:12 IST
By Rizwan Arif
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], December 30 (ANI): Jharkhand Health Minister Banna Gupta on Wednesday requested Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to lift a ban on admission of students in three medical colleges of the state in Dumka, Hazaribagh and Palamu.
Gupta made the request to Vardhan through a video conference. The National Medical Commission (NMC) has prohibited the admission process of these medical colleges citing the inadequate basic infrastructure.
Speaking to ANI over the phone, Gupta said, Jharkhand is a poor and backward state. Report of the Medical Council of India suggests that there s a crisis of medical staff in the state. Thus, our human resource development needs to be shaped. For this, it is necessary these medical colleges start having admissions. The Chief Minister too had w