"Minister for Health and Medical Education Choudhary Lal Singh today laid foundation stone of 50-bedded new building of Mahatma Gandhi Mother Childcare (MGMC) Hospital at Kathua," an official spokesman said.
Singh directed the Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) to gear up their men and machinery in completing the new hospital building by July 2016, adding that the government has released Rs 10 crore for this purpose.
He informed that with the completion of the new building of the hospital, the 50-bedded full-fledged hospital would be shifted in the new hospital building with the facilities of emergency block, OPD block, Operation Theatre, dispensary-cum- store, new born care unit, X-ray, ECG, Ultrasound, Indoor, dressing, injection, mortuary, doctor room, nurses room, lab, waiting room, medical OPD room, immunization and counseling.
The minister said his aim is to upgrade other hospitals of Kathua city and its adjoining tehsil headquarters at par with government medical college with adequate staff, machinery and medicines so that that the patients could get healthcare treatment at their doorstep hospitals.
He said the government is committed to provide infrastructural-cum-best healthcare facilities to the people in every corner of the state.
Responding to the demand of Asha Workers, the minister informed that under different courses in ANM and GNM schools, the government is keen to provide 25 per cent share to them so that they could get training under health sector courses there.