A Health institution will be set up in each assembly constituency of Himachal Pradesh to strengthen the health of the hill state, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said.
To be developed as Adarsh Swasthaya Sansthan, these institutes will comprise 134 types of laboratory test facilities, specialists and medical staff to provide the latest state-of-the-art MRI, CT scan, ultrasound and digital X-ray facilities, he said while presiding over a meeting of the health department. There are 68 assembly constituencies in the state.
The institutions will reduce the local residences dependence on district hospitals and strengthen the infrastructure of medical and Nursing Education, he said. The Congress-led State Government has accorded top priority to the Health sector so that world-class medical facilities could be provided to the patients within the state which would go a long way in saving the time and Money of the masses, the chief minister said.
The state government was now working on strengthening the health infrastructure and diagnostic facilities in the health institutions of the state to ensure better health care to the people at their doorsteps, Sukhu said. The robotic surgery facilities would be started on a pilot basis in Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital Shimla and Medical College Tanda in the next six months and training will be imparted to doctors and other staff in this respect soon, he said.