The Treasury has approved
funds to refurbish over 1,000 hospitals that come under both central and
local governments next year. The estimated cost for the provision of new
equipment and renovation of some of the hospital buildings will be over
280 million rupees.
The spokesman for the Health Ministry said on Tuesday (08) that the
main aim of next year’s (2010) hospital refurbishing project is to
provide necessary medical equipment to hospitals. There are 37 hospitals
which come under the Health Ministry. The total number of hospitals in
the Government health sector is over thousand.
In most hospitals the medical equipment is either outdated or subject
to breakdowns, he said. The Health Ministry plans to acquire state of
the art high tech medical equipment for these hospitals, he said.
Some of the hospital buildings would have to be renovated as well.
The Government health sector did not require more buildings, but some of
the existing buildings needed renovation, the spokesman said.
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