New Delhi: The Centre has added 60,000 more seats since 2014 to the existing 90,000 seats for undergraduates and postgraduates in the country, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He further added that the number of doctors that the country has produced over the past 7 decades will be added to health workers in the next decade alone.
The Prime Minister was speaking at the virtual inauguration ceremony of the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Kolkata, West Bengal. During the event, the PM said, “The number of doctors that the country produced in the last 70 years, will be produced in the coming 10 years."
Elaborating about the work done by his government in the medical sector, PM Modi said that his government has added 60,000 more medical seats.
"The number of medical seats of undergraduates and postgraduates in the country till 2014 was nearly 90,000. We have added 60,000 new seats in the last 7 years. In 2014, India had only 6 AIIMS. Today, the country is pacing forth toward having a strong network of 22 AIIMS," he said.
During the event, the PM also spoke about the vaccination drives against Covid-19 in the country and said that the country will achieve the historic feat of administering 1.5 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses in a year.
"The country had started the new year with the beginning of vaccination of the youth from the 15 to 18 years age group. Today, in the first week of the first month of the year, the country is achieving the historical feat of administering 1.5 billion COVID vaccine doses in less than a year's time," he said.