With an aim to improve the health care facilities in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Government is planning to construct around 1,000 hospitals with modern contraptions under public-private-partnership (PPP) model and the project is likely to start from November this year.
leading consulting firm Ernst & Young has been asked to prepare a detailed project report.
Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh said that the Government will identify two community health centres in each district. The land, about three acres each, will be given on a long-term lease to private company which will construct a 100-bedded hospital, along with an operation theatre and diagnostic centre, he said.
This proposal is yet to get Cabinet approval. The Health Minister said once they get the approval from the consulting firm, the blue print will be produced before the Cabinet. “The Cabinet approval will not be a problem as it will be an extension of the Central Government’s Ayushman Bharat scheme,” Singh said.
