The 38th college foundation day of the Nalanda Medical College (NMC) was celebrated here on Wednesday. State health minister Chandra Mohan Rai, while inaugurating the foundation day and alumni reunion function, announced increase in the number of seats for undergraduate (UG) courses from the coming academic session (2008-09).
"The college has now been entitled to admit 100 students in UG course,” he said. The NMC at present has 50 seats for the UG courses.
Rai said the government was also trying to introduce post-graduate (PG) courses in the college. He also announced that funds would soon be provided for construction of an auditorium in the college.
Addressing the function, state human resources development (HRD) minister Brishen Patel underlined the need to start a welfare scheme for the doctors and urged them to make efforts in this direction.
The inaugural session was preceded by the scientific session during which Dr Madhusudan Das and Dr V N Singh memorial lectures were delivered.
Delivering Dr Madhusudan Das memorial lecture, noted physician Dr S N Arya spoke at length about hypertension and obesity and underlined the need of lifestyle correction to manage these two ailments.
Delivering Dr V N Singh memorial lecture, urologist Dr Akhileshwar Kumar Sinha spoke at length about appendixetomy and recalled the contribution of Dr Singh in introducing button hole surgery for appendicitis.
Terming the Wednesday's function as a memorable one, Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) principal Dr C B Chaudhary thanked the participants for sparing time from their busy schedule to take part in the function.
A large number of NMC Alumni Association members, including its treasurer Dr Harihar Dixit, were also present on the occasion.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com April-05-08
