It is the responsibility of doctors and medicine teachers to promote research work: CM Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday laid the foundation of a hostel for nursing college students on the occasion of golden jubilee celebration of Baba Raghav Das Medical College (BRD) in Gorakhpur.

The hostel will have the capacity to accommodate 100 students. He also inaugurated the golden jubilee main gate of the college. On the occasion, the chief minister said the government is providing good health infrastructure, and research is the responsibility of doctors.

“People's health is the priority and the government is providing good health infrastructure. Only treatment of disease is not important but to know its main cause is also important so that it could be checked effectively. It is the responsibility of doctors and medicine teachers to promote research work and the government will provide all possible help,” he said.

Adityanath advised medical students to not be limited to only libraries but to step into rural areas, find out the causes of disease and complete research papers. “If research and development work gets restricted, we'll lag behind. There is no dearth of medical infrastructure and faculty in the state and promotion of research work and running of curriculum accordingly is required and with this, excellent results could be obtained.

We can give new heights to the medical system with research,” he said. Remembering his struggle for checking encephalitis in the state, the chief minister said, “The movement against encephalitis began in 1998 and unfortunately at that time there was no research paper. For doctors, each patient is a centre of research."