The Indian Railways will soon establish 18 new medical colleges attached to the existing Railway hospitals through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme. These proposed medical colleges will be opened in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bilaspur, Lucknow, Barasat, Bhubaneshwar, Mysore, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Jodhpur, Gardenreach, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, B R Singh Hospital/Kolkata, Bhopal, Jammu and Thiruvanthapuram.
The Railways will also establish seven Nursing Colleges attached to existing Railway Hospitals through the PPP programme. These places are Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai (Kalyan), Chennai, Secunderabad, Lucknow and Jabalpur. Railways also propose to set up a training institute at Dankuni (West Bengal).
Besides, the Railways has also decided to establish medical facilities in long distance trains. This First Aid facilities will be provided for travelling passengers in all the long distance trains. Proposals to depute a doctor on few long distance trains, having practically no stoppages en-route is under process. All long distance passenger carrying trains are provided with First Aid Boxes containing essential drugs and dressing materials. The First Aid Box is available with the Guard of the train.
