Listing out all the announcements made for Kalaburagi in the State Budget 2023-24 presented by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday, Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil has said that his government has given a bumper gift to the district by meeting almost all the expectations in the budget.
Addressing a media conference at the Congress office in the city, he said that allocating ₹5,000 crore for Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB) is a major contribution of the Congress government that will help not just Kalaburagi but the entire region to move steadily on the path of development.
“The announcement to establish a 200-bed Mother and Child Hospital at the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Kalaburagi at a cost of ₹70 crore, allocating ₹30 crore to operationalise the Trauma Care Centers (TCC) in Kalaburagi and Mysuru, earmarking ₹20 crore for the upgradation of the Peripheral Cancer Centres of Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology in Kalaburagi and Mysuru, giving ₹155 crore for establishing super-speciality hospitals and burns care centres in Kalaburagi, Mysuru and Belagavi will all help improve medical infrastructure in Kalaburagi and other places, while offering quality healthcare services free or at affordable cost to the poor people in the region,” Dr. Patil said.
