To provide quality healthcare education and ultramodern treatment facilities, the Punjab Government has finalised plot allotment policy to set up multi-specialty hospitals, medical colleges and medical research institutes in Medi-city, to be established at New Chandigarh. A scrutiny committee has also been constituted to ensure transparency in allotments to the eligible enterprises.
Keeping in view response from private sector to invest in healthcare and biosciences, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal has envisioned to setup a dedicated hub for healthcare facilities to realise the requirements of investors near the State capital, said a spokesperson of the State Housing and Urban Development Department.
Spokesperson informed that Sukhbir Badal, who also holds housing and urban development portfolio, had strategically visualised medi-city in New Chandigarh in the neighborhood of Edu-city for development of multi-specialty hospitals, medical university, medical college cum hospital for which GMADA has reserved about 258 acres of land.
Fifty acres, out a total of 104 acres, had already been allotted to Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre which was under construction.