Will ensure modern health services in all parts of JK: Omar

To ensure better health services in all parts of state, Jammu and Kashmir government is working on a "mega expansion programme", Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said today.
He re-affirmed his government's determination to provide better health facilities in far-flung and remote villages in the state.
"Under a comprehensive and gigantic health consolidation and expansion programme, scores of health centres in the villages, sub-districts and districts have been completed and many are in the process of completion," Omar said.
Besides modernising the health institutions, a mega expansion programme is in the offing to ensure health coverage and better medicare facilities to the people across the state, he said.

The chief minister inaugurated a Rs 11.83 crore 70-bed district hospital at Samba today. "Coming up of modern health facilities at the district would not only expand the orbit of health coverage for people but reduce the pressure on the hospitals in cities," he said.