To strengthen health facilities in state-run hospitals for universal healthcare, state government is going to establish cardiac care units at selected seven district hospitals of the state.
Health Minister T.S. Singhdeo on Friday inaugurated one such CCU in district hospital Raipur. Apart from CCU, an advanced lab named “Hamar Lab”, which will do more than 90 types of tests for citizens of capital city and nearby districts, and a day-care chemotherapy service were also dedicated to the public.
Speaking on this occasion, the Health Minister expressed his commitment to health for all and said the government was strengthening the medical facilities in the state and is going to provide free of cost or subsidized tests and checkups in this regard.
The facilities provided at the district hospitals would also benefit patients of nearby primary health care centers and community health care centers, he said.
It was later informed by the Health Secretary Niharika Barik Singh that the facility inaugurated was provided by health department of the state with the help of National Health Mission and Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
