With a focus on rural healthcare, the Assam government plans to set up a hospital in every district in the coming days. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi laid the foundation stone of a Rs 16.93 crore district hospital in Sonapur in Karmup (metro) district.
The three-storey 200-bed hospital with provision for another 100-beds would be completed by December 2011. Speaking at a function organised on the occasion, Gogoi said the government had all along laid emphasis on two sectors – health and education. Gogoi said that the government would lay thrust on the sector and would endeavour to bring quality health care within the reach of the poor segments.
Two district hospitals, one between Naharkatiya and Namrup and the other at Majuli would be laid next, informed state health minister Himanta Biswa Sharma.
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