NEW DELHI: All children below the age of 14 studying in Delhi schools – government-run, government-aided, MCD/NDMC and cantonment board schools – will now get free treatment and compulsory check-ups.
In the budget for 2011-12, the Delhi government has announced a new scheme – 'Chacha Nehru Sehat Yojana' – which aims at providing free healthcare to almost 27 lakh school-going children. After implementation of Right to Education, this is going to be the biggest leap for the adoption of
'Right to health for all children', said chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
She said an initial corpus of Rs 100 crore has been proposed for this particular scheme which can be further assessed and increased according to future requirements. The total outlay for the health sector in this year's budget has increased to Rs 1801 crore – 13% of the total outlay – from last year's Rs 1,243 crore.
The focus of this year's health budget is on the augmentation of existing health infrastructure and starting new schemes to improve services – for example, starting of specialized clinics for diabetics and kidney transplant at Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in Shahdara and a health insurance scheme for EWS. Two new medical colleges are also going to be started in Ambedkar Nagar and Dwarka.
The government's plans also include starting of a 500-bedded ward block at GTB Hospital, construction of Phase II of the Institute of Liver and Billary Sciences and setting up of more hospitals at Ambedkar Nagar, Burari and Dwarka. These projects had been mentioned in the last budget and even the year preceding that. An outlay of Rs 167 crore is proposed for construction of new hospital buildings at Sarita Vihar, Sirapur, Keshavpuram, Chattarpur and Bapraula and maternity and child hospitals at Molarbandh and Jhatikra.
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In the budget for 2011-12, the Delhi government has announced a new scheme – 'Chacha Nehru Sehat Yojana' – which aims at providing free healthcare to almost 27 lakh school-going children. After implementation of Right to Education, this is going to be the biggest leap for the adoption of
'Right to health for all children', said chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
She said an initial corpus of Rs 100 crore has been proposed for this particular scheme which can be further assessed and increased according to future requirements. The total outlay for the health sector in this year's budget has increased to Rs 1801 crore – 13% of the total outlay – from last year's Rs 1,243 crore.
The focus of this year's health budget is on the augmentation of existing health infrastructure and starting new schemes to improve services – for example, starting of specialized clinics for diabetics and kidney transplant at Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in Shahdara and a health insurance scheme for EWS. Two new medical colleges are also going to be started in Ambedkar Nagar and Dwarka.
The government's plans also include starting of a 500-bedded ward block at GTB Hospital, construction of Phase II of the Institute of Liver and Billary Sciences and setting up of more hospitals at Ambedkar Nagar, Burari and Dwarka. These projects had been mentioned in the last budget and even the year preceding that. An outlay of Rs 167 crore is proposed for construction of new hospital buildings at Sarita Vihar, Sirapur, Keshavpuram, Chattarpur and Bapraula and maternity and child hospitals at Molarbandh and Jhatikra.
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