Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has urged Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda to expedite formalities for All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bilaspur at the end of the Ministry so that work on it starts soon.
He met the Union minister in Delhi on Wednesday evening and detailed about the other medical colleges functioning in the state.
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He apprised the Union Minister about the progress of various projects and programmes in the health sector and added that he himself was taking keen interest in progress and implementation of these projects. He urged the Union Minister to review the ongoing schemes in HP.
The CM informed the progress of the ambitious Ayushman Bharat Yojana and said that the scheme would benefit 22 lakh people in the hill state. A total of 175 hospitals in Himachal Pradesh have been registered under the scheme and about five lakh families have been covered under the National Health Insurance Scheme in the state.
The state is also implementing the Mukhya Mantri State Healthcare Scheme, under which over 1.05 lakh families have been covered, he added.
