India, May 16 -- The city could soon have its seventh medical college, as the BMC has invited an expression of interest (EOI) to set up a medical college attached to Govandi's Shatabdi Hospital on a public-private participation (PPP) basis. This was confirmed by Chandrakant Pawar, chief medical superintendent of the BMC peripheral hospital. "We are waiting for responses to the EOI," he said.

At present, Mumbai has two medical colleges-Grant Medical College and St George Medical College-run by the state government, while the BMC governs the medical colleges attached to Sion, Nair, KEM and Cooper hospitals. The state has also started two medical colleges in Ambernath and Raigad while the Thane municipal corporation has its own medical coll...