Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said two container-based mobile hospitals with 100-bed capacity each will be established in Delhi and Chennai, alongside 150,000 health and wellness centres, under the Rs 64,000-crore national health infrastructure scheme.
Of these, 79,415 health and wellness centres have been operationalised in the country. “India is the first country in Asia to have two container-based hospitals,” Mandaviya said while addressing queries on the sidelines of the briefing on Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
The Centre will monitor the use of funds after they have been released to the states.