Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley has allotted Rs 2,724 crores to the health sector in the Delhi budget for the current fiscal. The allotment includes plans to set up centres in each district for victims of sexual assault and a multi-speciality hospital in South Delhi.
The government has proposed setting up one stop centres for crisis management and rehabilitation of victims of sexual assault in each district government hospitals. “Three such centres at Deen Dayal hospital, Guru Teg Bahadur hospital and Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital will become functional in the next three months, where the victims can be provided proper medical care along with legal and psycho-social counselling and support in a secure, gender- friendly environment,” Jaitley said. A new medical college with 100 seats will also come up in Rohini and efforts are being made to ensure that the first batch of students is admitted by next year.
The plan outlay of Rs 2,724 crore for health sector is approximately 16.3 per cent of plan outlay (excluding Centrally Sponsored Schemes), which is Rs 16,700 crore. The total budget estimate for the government of NCT of Delhi is Rs 36,766 for the year 2014-15. The Government has proposed to sanction one multi-speciality hospital for South Delhi in the current year.
Other proposed steps include setting up 50 dialysis centres for providing free dialysis to poor patients suffering from kidney failure and introducing 110 new ambulances with state-of-the-art life support equipment in the Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) fleet.
Three more Forensic Science Laboratories are also being planned for which land at Sheikh Sarai, Rohini and village Sayurpur at a cost of Rs 11.25 crores has been purchased, informed Jaitley. The Minister informed that online facility has been launched for out patient department (OPD) registration and issuing of free birth registration certificate at the time of discharge of mother and newborn baby from Government hospitals has also been initiated.
Source: PTI
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