Ten new govt hospitals in Bihar by 2008

Patna, May 23 (UNI) About ten new government hospitals are coming up in Bihar in as many districts by 2008 at a cost of Rs 61.96 crore to provide modern medicare facilities to far flung areas.

Informing this official sources here today said, to reduce the tremendous pressure from the six functional government medical colleges and hospitals in Patna, Nalanda, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur and Darbhanga, the state government had decided to spread the network to other remote areas of the districts with state-of-the- art medical facilities and allocated enough funds for the purpose.

Accordingly, the state government had decided to set up ten more government hospitals in Buxar, Sheohar, Kemur, Shekpura, Jamui, Araria, Kishshanganj, Begusarai, Madhubani and East Champaran districts in a phased manner but within a year.

A total amount of Rs 61.96 crore had also been provided in the state budget for this purpose.

''We have already acquired or purchased necessary land for this purpose in most places and started construction there,'' the sources said and hoped that the new government hospital at Sheohar and Kishanjang would be completed within next few months at cost of around Rs six crores each.

Necessary steps had also been intitiated to make them functional with all modern facilities at the earliest, the sources confirmed.

Incidentally, in absence of any modern medicare system in most of the far-flung districts of the state, large number of people living in those areas were being denied of even basic healthcare facilities.

UNI