State-of-the-art facilities have been set up at government hospitals in Kerala making the health sector in the State a model for others, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development J. Chinchurani has said.
She was inaugurating the renovated OP unit at Velinallur Community Health Centre in Chadayamangalam block panchayat.
“Government hospitals in the State will be made more patient-friendly,” said the Minister on Saturday, who added that the services of more doctors and other health workers would be made available in the hospitals. The OP unit was upgraded spending ₹15,70,000 from National Health Mission funds. The X-ray unit was set up at a cost of ₹22,11,288 including ₹20,90,248 allocated from the former MP’s Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) funds and ₹1,21,040 from Hospital Management Committee (HMC) funds.