The Uttar Pradesh government will run 15 community healthcare centres (CHCs) in the districts, including one in Lucknow, on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis. Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, who also holds the health portfolio, said the CHCs would have a 24-hour emergency service, free admission, medicine and diagnostic services.
Pathak said all the facilities would be ensured to patients. “It will be a step towards ensuring better healthcare in CHCs,” he said. The selected CHCs are Nagram in Lucknow, Gajokhar in Varanasi, Khadda in Kushinagar, Belaghat in Gorakhpur, Rajapur in Chitrakoot, Malhipur in Shrawasti, Chandan Chowki in Lakhimpur Kheri, Vishwarganj in Bahraich, Bhogwara in Chandauli, Adda Bazar in Maharajganj, Sukhpura in Ballia, Dapsaura in Fatehpur, Babhani in Sonbhadra, Khajuria in Balrampur and Sirsiya in Siddharth Nagar.
Pathak said: “We are hopeful that this experiment will be a step towards ensuring better healthcare facilities in CHCs and latest medical equipment will be installed there, as per requirement. Orders have been issued to health officials to execute the process at the earliest.”
He directed the officials to ensure that all benefits of healthcare schemes being launched by the state and Central government were passed on to the patients.