SHILLONG: Meghalaya will have to wait further to have its own medical college as the proposed Shillong Medical College and Hospital is unlikely to meet the 2017 deadline.
The government had approved the construction of the Shillong Medical College and Hospital under PPP mode at the existing Reid Chest TB Hospital in Jhalupara area of the city.
The patients at the TB hospital have to be shifted at first to pave way for the construction of the Shillong Medical College. The Government will be able to start the construction of the Shillong Medical College only after the patients are shifted to the new TB hospital, presently being constructed at Umsawli.
Sources said that the construction of the Shillong Medical college will take atleast three years, so there is no possibility of the proposed medical college becoming functional by 2017.
It is learnt that 90 per cent work of the new TB hospital has been completed.
