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By: Shree1news, 22 FEB 2021
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at IIT Kharagpur by way of video conferencing on Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Office mentioned on Sunday.
The prime minister will also address the 66th Convocation of IIT Kharagpur, it mentioned. Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, a super speciality hospital, has been arrange by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur with support from the Ministry of Education.
Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at IIT Kharagpur and can address the 66th Convocation of IIT Kharagpur on February 23 at 12.30 pm through video conferencing, the PMO mentioned.
Governor of West Bengal, Union Education Minister, and Union Minister of State for Education will also be present on the occasion, it mentioned.
The Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute is inspired by the vision of the prime minister that the future of India can be formed by investment in science and innovation and driven by its research talent, the PMO mentioned.
This hospital thus is a product of the fusion between technology and healthcare, it mentioned.
Taking the legacy of IIT Kharagpur in developing healthcare technology products further, the hospital will deal with robust biomedical, clinical and translational research, development of remote diagnostics, telemedicine, teleradiology along with research in drug design and delivery, the PMO mentioned.
The MBBS programme is expected to start from the academic year 2021-22 along with postgraduate and doctoral programmes, it stated.
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