Minister for Fiance and Health T. Harish Rao said that the BRS Government had brought a ‘White coat revolution’ in the State and there was no need for merit students to go out for studying doctor course.
“During the last eight years, the government has sanctioned 29 medical colleges out of which 21 are functional and eight are in the process of being established. There are 8,515 MBBS seats and 2,890 PG seats available in the State,” said Mr. Harish Rao replying to a question by MLA Gadari Kishore Kumar, M. Sanjay, Dr. M. Anand and M. Yadagiri Reddy during Question Hour in the Assembly on Saturday. He said that in addition, there were 28 medical colleges in private, and one medical college each under ESI and AIIMS.
Mr. Harish Rao said that out of the total 1,300 medical seats available in the country in the present academic year 900 were from Telangana.