PATNA, June 14 -- The Bihar government has invited stakeholder consultations for establishing, developing and operating 33 government medical college hospitals under public-private partnership (PPP) model to bring major private healthcare and medical education players into the state's public health sector, senior health officials said on Sunday.

The state plans to develop 17 new medical college hospitals as greenfield projects and hand over operations of 16 existing or upcoming institutions under the brownfield model to private entities with experience in managing medical colleges and hospital chains. A stakeholder consultation meeting is scheduled in Patna on June 17.

"Bihar expects participation from reputed private players with prove...