Vikas Vaidya

  This is the auditorium where autopsy is conducted which can be watched by students or teachers By Vikas Vaidya Can one imagine mortuaries with big auditorium and state of the art arrangement in Government Medical Colleges? Yes is the answer to this question. Soon Government Medical Colleges, District Hospitals to have mortuaries matching to the five star hotel. Goa Medical College has such kind of mortuary. Taking leaf out of Goa medical college’s book Maharashtra will be developing such mortuaries. The issue was raised by Nagpur’s MLC Girish Vyas in State Legislative Council on Thursday. To this querry, Chairman of Council assured House that Goa pattern would be followed to establish state of the art mortuaries in State’s Medical Colleges. In a case Sahyog Trust vs Maharashtra Government, the division bench of Justice Bhushan Gavai and Mrudula Bhatkar at Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court had passed an order asking Government to visit mortuary at Goa Medical College deve...

By Vikas Vaidya Maharashtra Government has decided to start Government Medical Colleges with the support of private partnership. A committee has been constituted under the Chairmanship of Dr Vedprakash Mishra, Chancellor of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Karad that will prepare a proposal suggesting the alternative models, that would be submitted to Government within a month. Joint Director of Directorate of Medical Education and Research Dr Prakash Wakode will be its member. Medical Education Minister Vinod Tawde has issued the directions in that regard. There are many districts in Maharashtra where there is no Government Medical College exist at present. Government has proposed that Government Medical College can be established in these districts to be run with support of private partnership. Almost all districts have District Hospital. To run any medical college, one will need good hospital of at least 100 beds. So, Government is planning to upgrade this district ho...