55,000 central health centres to come up across country: Azad

Over 55,000 central health centres are being set up across the country at a cost of Rs 1.10 lakh crore, Union Health and Family Welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said today.
The ayurvedic department is setting up 100 diabetes, cancer and cardiology check-up centres in the country and out of this, four will come up at Bathinda, Mansa, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur districts in Punjab, he said.
Some 100 hospitals for old-aged-persons are also being set up and of this, three will come up at Bathinda, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur, Azad said.
A cancer hospital will be set up at Hoshiarpur costing Rs 45 crore, he said after inaugurating a health fair, jointly organised by Union and Punjab Health departments at Gardhiwal town here.

A nursing school has been set up in Gurdaspur district under the Primary Health Programme, the minister said.
Eighty per cent of tests conducted for diabetes on 1.60 lakh people in Hoshiarpur district were found to be positive, Azad said.