Fifty students will be admitted to Pabna Medical College this session while the Ministry of Education has instructed renting a house for operating proposed Pabna Technology University.
The classes of the medical college will be held on the premises of Pabna Mental Hospital until establishment of the infrastructure of Pabna Medical College, health department sources said.
“As the government has recently issued an order, 50 students will be admitted to Pabna Medical College in the first batch this year. Admission forms will be available from September 29,” said Prof Dr Enayet Karim, director of Pabna Mental Hospital.
The health department has already sanctioned 33 acres of lands of Pabna Mental Hospital to the new medical college.
Earlier a medical college started functioning in 1981 but the then government stopped running the institution after two years.
The present caretaker government took initiative to set up a medical college and a university in Pabna, much to the delight and satisfaction of the people of the district.