Date:30/05/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/30/stories/2005053014180500.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Institute gets permission for MBBS course

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has permitted the Konaseema Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Foundation (KIMS), Amalapuram in East Godavari district, to offer MBBS course from this academic year with an intake of 150 seats. The NTR University of Health Sciences has also extended the affiliation.

Addressing a press conference here, K.V.V. Satyanarayana Raju, Chairman of the college, said they had been running an 800-bed hospital, the biggest attached to a medical college in the State, for the last three years and are treating thousands of patients free of cost. The hospital is housed in a five-storeyed building on the outskirts of Amalapuram on a 70-acre land, with 12 AC operation theatres and two emergency operation theatres. He said Dr. Ganapati, former Dean of Madras Medical College hospital, Chennai is the Dean of KIMS while the faculty has been drawn from AIIMS, New Delhi; PGI, Chandigarh, NIMS and Manipal medical institutions.

Best of facilities

Mr. Raju said the first ten students getting admitted in the college from the top 100 rankers of EAMCET would be given a scholarship of Rs. 30,000 per year till completion of the course. Moreover, coaching for P.G. entrance would be given free of cost to all the students. He said the college is a part of Chaitanya group that runs schools, junior and degree colleges along with engineering, management, MCA and pharmacy colleges in the Konaseema area.