Academicians have expressed their concerns about the strengthening of rural health infrastructure and the need to have a curriculum covering infectious diseases and pandemics while reacting to the Government Medical Colleges coming up in three districts of Maharashtra. They have also listed other requirements that should be focused on, in the colleges.

mid-day in ‘Konkan set to get its first government medical college’ on Thursday had written about a 53-acres land being reserved for one of the medical colleges in Usar village, on the Alibag-Roha road, which will also have a 500-bed hospital. Approximately Rs 639 crore would be spent for construction of the medical college and hospitals building in next three years, from date of sanction.