The Finance Minister of Uttarakhand, Prakash Pant called upon Union Health Minister J P Nadda in New Delhi on Wednesday and discussed various issues with him. Reminding about the Union Health Minister’s declaration about opening a dispensary at Pithoragarh under Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) and requested that the declaration should be implementing expediently in view of the status of health services in the border district. Pant said that an amount of Rs 69.29 Crore is needed to be released by the union government for construction of Almora Medical College. He said that the memorandum of understanding for setting up trauma centre and burn unit at Government Doon Medical College and Medical College Haldwani have been submitted to the government of India and the nod of the government is pending. Pant also informed Nadda that an amount of Rs 31.77 Crore is needed to be released for increasing 50 MBBS seats in Medical College Haldwani. He also reminded that an amount of Rs 17.69 Crore is pending on Government of India for setting up nursing colleges at Pauri, Pithoragarh, Chamoli and Tehri as per the recommendations of the 13th finance commission.