India, Nov. 25 -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $398.8 million loan to support the state of Assam in India, in transforming its health care and medical education systems.The Assam State Tertiary Health Care Augmentation Project will modernize Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) into a state-of-the-art super-specialty facility and upgrade Assam Medical College and Hospital and Silchar Medical College and Hospital, creating a network of centers of excellence under Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences. Key project components include modernizing GMCH with climate- and disaster-resilient, gender-responsive infrastructure and digital hospital systems; and upgrading medical education through smart classrooms...