Mangaluru to get private medical college

MANGALURU

: The city will get another

private medical college

this academic year. GR Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre situated in Neermarga has been granted permission to start an MBBS course with an intake of 150 students.

The college is a part of Karavali Group of Colleges run by chairman Ganesh Rao S. The institution has got permission from the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) of National Medical Commission (

NMC

).

In a press statement, Ganesh Rao said that the college has developed all the facilities for the MBBS course, as per NMC and

Rajiv Gandhi University

norms. The college has a modern well equipped hospital with 330 general beds, and 30 beds for emergency medicine, including the green category, yellow category and red category, and 60 ventilator beds in the ICU, ICCU,

NICU

,

PICU

and obstetric HDU/ICU. Other than this, pre-operative beds, post-operative beds, labour beds and eclampsia and septic beds are available. The college has 24 hours casualty, blood bank, central lab, pharmacy, radiology department, ambulance service, anatomy lab, physiology lab and biochemistry lab, and boys and girls hostel on the campus.