A National Cardiovascular Institute would be set up in Haryana's Jhajjar district in the next three years.
“A national cancer institute is also being set up in Badshah. This 710-bed institute, being built on the pattern of NCI in the US, would be ready within three years,” said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Monday after laying the foundation stone of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre in Faridabad on Monday.
This centre, to be built over 100 acres, would include a 2,000-bed hospital which would have the highest capacity in northern India.
The Chief Minister said that the process to open Government medical colleges in Panchkula, Bhiwani and Jind was underway.
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Rs 3,916.94 crore had been made for health and family welfare in 2016-17 for expansion of health services in the state. This was 37.1 per cent more than the budget expenditure of 2015-16, said he.
Greeting the people on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya and Parshuram Jayanti, the Chief Minister said that the construction of the hospital would provide health facilities to the people, including the poor. He also announced that the chowk and dividing road of Sector 87-88 would be named after Mata Amritanandamayi.
Reiterating the State Government’s commitment to provide medical facilities to every person, Manohar lal said that a target has been set to open a medical college in each district.
Recently, the State Government has announced to create a separate cadre of specialists in the Health Department so as to ensure all kind of heath care services to the patients. Also, a permanent transparent transfer policy would soon be rolled out for doctors and other staff of the department.
He said that the sex ratio in Haryana had crossed the 900-mark after the implementation of the ambitious ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2015.
Crediting Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) for the success of the programme, he said that their honorarium had been doubled from Rs 500 to Rs 1,000.
With a view to create awareness regarding conservation of the environment among school children, the Chief Minister also distributed saplings among them on the occasion.