India, Nov. 7 -- Odisha has added 318 postgraduate medical seats in government medical colleges after the National Medical Commission granted approval, taking the state's total from 620 to 938, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling said on Friday.

The expansion covers 14 disciplines, including general medicine, general surgery, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, pathology and respiratory medicine.

Five government medical colleges at Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Koraput, Talcher and Phulbani have been cleared to run PG courses for the first time. Dharanidhar Medical College and Hospital, Keonjhar, has been sanctioned 44 seats across 10 departments, while Sundargarh Government Medical...