Flags off Tonglen mobile clinic bus service
Punjab Newsline, Shimla, October 29-
CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu today said the state government was commitment to provide quality healthcare services to people at their doorstep. As part of this initiative one health institution in each assembly constituency was being upgraded as a model health institution and Rs. one crore has been allocated for each institution to purchase necessary machinery and equipment.
The Chief Minister flagged off mobile clinic bus service of Tonglen at Circuit House in Dharamshala today. He said that an action plan was underway to improve health and education services so as to ensure people have access to better facilities.
Sukhu said that the emergency medicine departments were being developed by upgrading casualty departments in colleges across the state. He said that keeping in view the growing number of cancer patients the government was establishing state-of-the-art cancer institutes in various parts the state to offer advanced treatment.
He said that apart from this the government has decided to provide free medicines and treatment facilities to cancer patients in government hospitals.