Bhubaneswar: The State Government has extended its approval for setting up a medical college at Talcher in Angul district.
In a notification on Monday, the Health & Family Welfare Department said, “In preparation for functionalisation of the new medical college, the existing Nehru Shatabdi Hospital of MCL is being taken over by the government.”
After consideration of a proposal, the government has decided to name the hospital as Pabitra Mohan Pradhan Government Hospital, which will function as the future teaching hospital for the proposed medical college.
The notification be published in an extraordinary issue of the Odisha Gazette, the department stated.
