Palle Dawakhans to be set up across State: CM

Shelters for patients’ attendants to come up at all government hospitals

The State government would spend ₹10,000 crore on improving the health infrastructure in the State, including enhancing bed strength, setting up oxygen plants besides recruiting doctors.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao told the Assembly on Friday that the State government’s policy was to have a medical college set up in every district headquarters so that the attached hospitals could deliver better healthcare services. About a dozen medical colleges were sanctioned recently in the new district headquarters and more would be sanctioned in the coming days, if necessary.

On the lines of Basti Dawakhanas set up in the City, the government had already set up 100 Palle Dawakhanas on experimental basis and they would be spread across the State once the doctors’ recruitment was completed. Earlier, M. Bhatti Vikramarka urged the government to to establish Palle Dawakhanas in every village to improve healthcare services in the State.