STATE TIMES NEWs
SRINAGAR: Government is working towards providing a model hospital in every constituency of the state which would be equipped with all the modern diagnostic and health care facilities, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said here on Thursday.
“We have taken up two hospitals – one at Dooru in Anantnag district of Kashmir and the other at Basholi in Kathua district of Jammu – on pilot basis and will soon broaden the ambit of the scheme by providing a model hospital with similar facilities in every constituency,” she said in the Legislative Council. The state has 87 constituencies in all.
She said each such hospital would also have the much-needed gynaecological facilities for the women.
Mehbooba said the government would approach the corporate houses within and outside the state for taking up the hospitals under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Besides, the legislators will also be requested to provide the necessary funds from their Constituency Development Fund (CDF) for procuring various facilities, she said.
She said the step would go a long way in ensuring that the health infrastructure gets the requisite augmentation in diagnostics as well as the health care services to be given to the people, besides reducing the load on the district hospitals. “A start has been made and I hope we can take it further,” Mehbooba said.
