The State government, taking a cue from its Gujarat counterpart, proposed to increase the retirement age of professors in government medical colleges to 65 years, Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas said on Thursday.
“The Gujarat model of medical education is worth emulating. The proposal, in the interest of medical students and patients, will be put before the State Cabinet soon,” said the Minister who slept in the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here on Wednesday night and interacted with patients. Private doctors would be allowed to offer those specialty services unavailable in the State-run hospitals from the premises of government hospitals soon, he added.