New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya has urged top private charitable hospitals across the country to start quality and affordable medical education.

Recently, Mansukh Mandaviya held a meeting with around 62 renowned charitable private hospitals which have not started medical education and asked them to start undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses.

The hospitals included Apollo Hospital, Amrita Hospital, Anandamayi, Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Amb Hospital.

“We have urged these comprehensively top hospitals to start medical colleges for medical education for Indian students so that they do not go abroad for medical studies,” Mandaviya said on Monday.

The government’s documents and criteria related to land, beds etc. were also discussed in the meeting.

He further added, “Some norms have also been relaxed to enable these charitable hospitals to start medical colleges for medical education.”

The minister has also held a round of meeting with the hospitals and it is expected that 12-13 hospitals may start medical education this year.