New Delhi: Bhutan on Monday urged India to help build a super-specialty medical college modelled after the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and allow more Bhutanese students to pursue medical education in India.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss called on visiting Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley here.

"The prime minister of Bhutan raised the issue of setting up of a medical college in the context of ongoing cooperation between the two countries in the health sector," a health ministry communiqué said.

India has already been building two hospitals in the Himalayan country.

During the meeting, Ramadoss mentioned that he met Bhutan's health minister in Geneva during a recent health assembly where "he discussed this issue as well as starting a nursing college in Bhutan".

"Thinley also requested for more seats for Bhutan students in Indian medical colleges. The health minister assured that he would look into the matter," the health ministry added.

A Bhutanese delegation led by the health minister will soon visit India to work out the details and discuss the various technicalities involved in it. IANS