CHANDIGARH: Premier medical institute PGI will start an MBBS course with an initial intake of 100 students soon. Union minister of health and family welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday approved the proposal after he had recently discussed the matter with institute director Prof Vivek Lal in a meeting in New Delhi.
It shall be the first time in PGI, which has been teaching postgraduate courses, that an undergraduate programme will be started on the lines of AIIMS. "MBBS course at PGI has been the vision of most of the directors. But it was never taken ahead. This decision is a game changer for the institute," said an official in the health ministry.
