On Sunday, Chief Minister N Rangasamy requested Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, to construct a medical university in this area. Rangasamy presented a document encouraging the Center to establish the varsity during a meeting held during the Central Minister’s visit to the Union Territory. An earlier meeting of representatives from the centrally run JIPMER and the Health Department of Puducherry was addressed by the Union Minister.
According to an official statement, she looked into how various health-related programmes were being implemented. K Lakshminarayanan, the Puducherry PWD Minister, Rakesh Agarwal, the director of JIPMER, and G Sriramulu, the director of the Puducherry administration’s health department, were among those present at the meeting.
According to the press release, the Chief Minister asked for early university approval in the memorandum and requested that a radiotherapy centre, a de-addiction centre, a 200-bed hospital for infectious diseases, and a pharmaceutical park be established nearby.
The Chief Minister complimented the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry for consistently assisting Puducherry in carrying out a number of the Center’s health programmes. According to him, Puducherry’s aim has been met and national programmes have been successfully implemented by the territorial government.
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