DEHRADUN, Oct 30:
To improve health facilities in Uttarakhand, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today announced a cancer institute for Haldwani in Nainital district and a cancer care centre at the Doon Hospital here.
To be built at a cost of Rs 120 crore, the state Cancer Institute will come up at Haldwani Medical College whereas the Rs 45 crore Cancer Care Centre will be established within the Doon hospital premises in the city, Azad said after inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of several health projects in the city.
A trauma centre will be set up at Shrinagar Medical college and the amount being given to Uttarakhand under the National Health Mission will be doubled, he said.
“The amount to be given under NHM to Uttarakhand will now be in the proportion of 90:10 which means the State Government will have to arrange only for 10 per cent of the funds for any NHM project and the rest will be contributed by the Centre,” the Union Minister said, adding no stone will be left unturned to improve and expand health facilities in the State.
Azad asked the State Government to send new proposals to the Centre in the health sector.
The Centre has taken special initiatives to give a boost to health facilities in hill states and the four NHM run health programmes launched in the state today are part of that process, the Union Health Minister said.
Considering the unique geographical conditions of the hills states, the norms have been relaxed for expansion of medical facilities there, he said.
The programmes launched by the Minister today included National Child Health Mission, National Iron Plus Programme, National Generic Medicine and Treatment Services and the National Ambulance Service 108.
He said the ambit of these schemes have been widened by the Centre to benefit states like Uttarakhand.
Accompanied by Union Minister for Water Resources Harish Rawat and Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, Azad later laid the foundation stone of a Spice Park at Sahaspur near Dehradun.
This is the second Spice Park whose foundation stone has been laid in the State.
Union minister Anand Sharma had laid the foundation stone of a Spice Park in Sitarganj earlier this month. (PTI)
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