Shalaka Kachare
All of Uttarakhand’s government medical colleges will begin teaching the MBBS program in both English and Hindi. This information was provided by the state’s Ministry of Health. According to Dhansingh Rawat, the state’s minister of health, Uttarakhand will follow Madhya Pradesh as the second state in the nation to offer medical education in both English and Hindi.
As soon as he got back from his meeting with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in the nation’s capital, Delhi, Rawat said he informed the minister about the program set up to mark the beginning of the MBBS course in Hindi for the academic year 2023-2024 in government medical colleges later this month. He was invited to participate and has given his permission.
He said that the Medical Education Department has completed all its preparations to start the MBBS course in Hindi. He informed me that the department had constituted a special committee consisting of expert doctors from government medical colleges to prepare a medical syllabus in Hindi.
Rawat said that after studying the Hindi syllabus of MBBS implemented in Madhya Pradesh, this committee prepared a Hindi syllabus for the medical colleges of the state and handed it over to Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Medical Education University.
He told that all the formalities of implementing Hindi courses at the university level have been completed and soon it will be implemented in the medical colleges of the state by the hands of Mandaviya. This is a big gift for those students who have studied in Hindi medium schools.
Rawat told that during the meeting, he also invited the Union Minister for the Bhoomi Poojan program of the satellite center of AIIMS Rishikesh in Udham Singh Nagar district, and he gave his consent for the same. He said that he also discussed with the Union Minister the state’s health facilities and plans.