Present in the meeting were Secretary Health &amp; Medical Education, Secretary, PWD; Secretary, Planning; MD, NHM; Director, SKIMS; DG, Codes; MD, JKPCC; Principals of Medical Colleges; Development Commissioner (Works); Director Health, Kashmir/Jammu; Chief Engineers and other concerned officers.
The Chief Secretary took stock of the major services being offered in these Medical Colleges.
He maintained that the old medical colleges like SKIMS, GMC Jammu/Srinagar should play a mentoring role for the overall handholding and capacity building of staff in these Colleges to enhance their efficiency and outcomes.
The Chief Secretary enquired about the status of facilities like PET-Scan, Branchy therapy, Linear Accelerator in the two Cancer Institutes here.
He informed the meeting that an improvement of 5% in faculty position of new medical colleges has been registered in the last 3 months.

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