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Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah today visited the campus of JGMM Medical College and KLE Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Hubballi, Karnataka.

In his post on X platform, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah said “Today, visited the campus of JGMM Medical College and KLE Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Hubballi, Karnataka. KLE has been serving the nation for over 110 years through education and healthcare. The new facility, with 250 MBBS seats and 1,200 beds, 300 of which are reserved for the poor, marks a new milestone in extending world-class healthcare across Karnataka.”

Constructed on approximately 50 acres of land at a cost of around ₹700 crore, the medical college and hospital complex has a total built-up area of ​​20 lakh square feet. The hospital will offer a wide range of services under one roof. Basic specialty facilities—such as General Medicine, Surgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, ENT, Psychiatry, Dentistry, and Physiotherapy—will be available here. Additionally, the facility will provide super-specialty services—including Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Organ Transplantation, Urology, Oncology, and Endocrinology—along with modern laboratories.

The hospital will also feature state-of-the-art facilities such as 24-hour high-speed emergency and trauma care, a modern dialysis unit, digital X-ray, high-resolution CT scanning, and ultrasonography.

Today, visited the campus of JGMM Medical College and KLE Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Hubballi, Karnataka.

KLE has been serving the nation for over 110 years through education and healthcare. The new facility, with 250 MBBS seats and 1,200 beds, 300 of which are… pic.twitter.com/HUPNJB1Qkb

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 19, 2026

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Source attribution: Press Information Bureau, Government of India.