The proposals from the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Royal Industrial University were quickly approved by the Cabinet meeting, and the Treasury Department also stated that it would allocate 8 million Australian Dollars to build these two universities.
Because they carried the royal prefix, Arthur also specifically stated that he would attend the groundbreaking ceremonies and the inaugural opening ceremonies of these two universities.
This also made the Cabinet attach even greater importance to these two universities, and Minister of Education Kellog designated these two projects as the most important items in university construction, supervising them personally.
After the matter of education was temporarily resolved, the issue of medical care was actually not too big of a problem.
Australasia currently possessed two medical universities and one medical college, and the number of medical students trained every year was still quite large.
One had to know that Australasian universities attached the utmost importance to practical ability, and medical colleges and medical universities were naturally no exception.
Although most of these medical college students had graduated only a few years ago, they had already interned several times during their university careers, and they were fully capable of acting as assistants to practicing physicians.
After a few years of accumulating experience and honing their skills, they would also grow into qualified doctors in hospitals and then be transferred to other newly established hospitals.
At present, the number of large hospitals in Australasia far exceeded the number of universities, and the average number of large hospitals in each state had even surpassed 5.
Among them, the more exaggerated ones were important cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and Saint Arthur's Fort, where the number of large hospitals was above 5.
As for localized colonial regions like Java and Sumatra, the current number of large hospitals