ADB to give Rs 4,000 cr to improve health infrastructure in Maha, says CM Shinde | India News – Business Standard
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said the Asian Development Bank will provide a loan of Rs 4,000 crore to improve medical facilities in the state.
The in-principle approval for the first tranche of Rs 1,200 crore has been given, he added. “The Asian Development Bank has approved the pending proposal of Rs 4,000 crore loan to Maharashtra for creating advanced healthcare infrastructure and medical education. She has also given in-principle approval for Rs 1,200 crore in the first phase,” the CMO said in a statement. . It said the CM had directed officials to start work on a 500-bed hospital in Dharashiv (formerly Osmanabad).
“The ADB has proposed seven different types of improvements at the administrative level and medical education. It includes a knowledge centre, digital medical education and health policy, e-hospital, encouragement of medical officers and staff, real estate management, sustainability policy, recruitment centres, decentralization of drug procurement,” the report said.
“The ADB would provide Rs 1,200 crore for the construction of the hospital. The tender process for construction of similar infrastructure at Alibaug in Raigad district has been completed while the process for Kolhapur and Sindhudurg is underway,” the release quoted him as saying. After inaugurating a super specialty hospital at Ulhasnagar in Thane, Shinde proposed to his government to start a medical college and a super specialty hospital in every district.
Shinde praised the cashless hospitalization system prevalent in Thane and said he would make efforts to replicate it across the state.
Shinde also said he had carried out the “biggest operation in the state” as everything was in a bad state, a reference to his June 2022 uprising that toppled the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
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First print: February 13, 2024 | 12:19 pm IST