Hubballi, September 19: Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah on Saturday visited the campus of JGMM Medical College and KLE Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Hubballi, Karnataka. The new Hubballi medical college and hospital has 250 MBBS seats and 1,200 beds, of which 300 are reserved for the poor, Shah said in a post on X.
In the same post, Shah said KLE has served the country through education and healthcare for more than 110 years. He called the new facility “a new milestone” in extending world-class healthcare across Karnataka.
Campus and cost
According to the Press Information Bureau, the medical college and hospital complex has been built on about 50 acres at a cost of around ₹700 crore. Its total built-up area is 20 lakh square feet.
Services planned
The hospital will offer basic specialties including general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, pulmonology, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, ENT, psychiatry, dentistry and physiotherapy. Super-specialty services will include cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, nephrology, organ transplantation, urology, oncology and endocrinology, along with modern laboratories.
It will also have 24-hour emergency and trauma care, a dialysis unit, digital X-ray, high-resolution CT scanning and ultrasonography.
Source: Press Information Bureau release, 19 September 2026: 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.