With the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) appraising the proposal for setting up of Rs 1,537 crore Central Armed Police Forces Institute of Medical Sciences (CAPFIMS) — including a 500-bedded General Hospital and a 300-bedded super speciality hospital — in Delhi, a Cabinet note is under preparation in the Home Ministry for according final sanction.
The Government has also sanctioned setting up of a 200-bedded hospital, six 100-bedded hospitals and 32 50-bedded composite hospitals for paramilitary forces across the country for benefit of the paramilitary forces.
While the 200-bedded composite hospital under the Indo-Tibetan Border Police is being established at Greater Noida, 100-bedded hospital of the CRPF are established at Jammu, Guwahati, Hyderabad and Jharodakalan in Delhi, two similar hospitals are under BSF at Siliguri and Tekanpur.
The 50-bedded hospital under the CRPF include one each at Bhopal and Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh and at Rampur and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, Ahmedabad, Bilaspur, Sindri, Muzaffarpur, Bhubaneshwar, Nagpur, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Pallipur-am, Imphal, Silchar and Ajmer.
The 50-bedded hospitals under the BSF include one each at Sringar, Jallandhar, Jodhpur, Aizwal, Agartala, Hazaribagh, Kolkata, Siliguri and Shillong.
likewise, the SSB is running a 50-bedded composite hospital at Gorakhpur, Barauni and Tezpur. ITBP has a 50-bedded hospital at Chandigarh and Itanagar. NSG has a similar hospital at its campus in Manesar and the Assam Rifles has one at Dimapur.
The Union Home Ministry has also issued notification so that personnel of any paramilitary force can avail treatment at any hospital irrespective of their affiliation to any force.