By RINA International Service
New Delhi: Hamdard University is all set to start Hamdrd Medical College to award MBBS degrees. Hamdard Medical College shall starts its business with the addition of 350 beds in the university’s existing 150-bed Majidiya Hospital. Besides that, the university will also start several new courses.
Equipped with the medical college, its new courses and ultra-modern research in this field, the university wants to evolve such a combination of modern and traditional medicine that is quite unique in its nature. Hamdard University’s vice-chancellor Dr. S. Ahmad furnished this information in a press conference. He told that the estimated cost of the medical college is Rs. 400 crore, of which Rs. 150 crore will be spent on building, Rs. 150 crore on other basic infra-structure and Rs. 100 crore on medical equipments. He told they are in regular contact of the Medical Council of India for its sanction whereas the union government and the Delhi government are also being requested to cooperate in it.
Talking about the admissions in the college, He told that 50 seats will be reserved for Muslim students and the same procedure of all India test shall be adopted for admissions against remaining seats that is prevalent in the country. He said that this will be the first institution in the world where researches will be conducted in both modern and traditional medical sciences. Another unique feature is that use of human and animal skeletons in MBBS courses of this college will be negligible.
Dr. S. Ahmad said fruition of the dreams of Hamdard’s founder late Hakim Abdul Hameed shall be deemed realized only when this institution establishes its individual identity in the field of health. He told the university presently comprises seven faculties, namely: allied health science, Islamic studies and social science, management studies and information technology, Unani medicine, nursing, pharmacy and science. Work is progressing rapidly on other projects to open other professional courses. Currently, there are 24 departments, 450 teachers and five thousand students, not only from within the country but also foreign students in all the courses.
He said there is no harm in admitting that the work being done in the field of Unani system requires much more research and we have to do it. Hamdard University wants to bring up a new experimentalist world in modern and traditional research fields and we are marching ahead towards success in our objectives, he said. Our medical college or hospital shall be very easily accessible to masses, informed Dr. Ahmad.
Vice-chancellor Dr. S. Ahmad told that work is continuing to include a number of new courses including B. Tech in computer science and information technology and M. Tech. in computer science, nutrition, bio-electronics, and instrumentation, bio-informatics, nano-technology and nano-biotechnology, besides the courses already being run, and possibly, they will include these courses by next session.
After concluding the press conference, he showed separate, near-completion buildings of the medical college and nano-biotechnology department. Hamdard University’s registrar P. S. Srivastava and PRO Samad Rafi were also present in the press conference.