The Karnataka government has allocated around Rs.135 crore for district hospital in Mysore, 5 trauma care centres and a dialysis unit in its Budget for 2016-17.
The Rs.135 crore fund is for five initiatives. These cover establishment of District Hospital in Mysore City at a cost of Rs.60 crore. Under the Aapathbandhava scheme, it has allocated Rs.52.96 crore to set-up trauma care centres at 5 locations to give emergency treatment to highway accident victims. For the Dialysis Programme it will set up 25 bed special unit in K.C. General Hospital, Bengaluru at a cost of Rs.4.49 crore. It has allocated Rs.6 crore for construction of District Ayush Integrated Hospitals with 50 bed capacity each, in Chikkaballapura, Davangere and with 10 bed capacity each, in Dandeli, Chincholi and T. Narsipur at a cost of Rs.6 crore. It is providing a one-time grant of Rs.3 crore to a Naturopathy Institute run by R.M.S. Medical Sciences, Hulikote. Besides Rs.8 crore for the construction of ladies hostel at Government Pharmacy College, Bengaluru.
As part of the good sanitation and access to potable water, the government will provide hygienic toilets and drinking water facilities in district hospitals and Mother and Child hospitals besides have dormitories under its ‘Aaraike’ scheme, said Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah during the budget presentation.
It is also taking up a few initiatives with the assistance of National Health Mission. These include providing of mosquito net and mosquito repellent cream to all pregnant women under its ‘Samagra Mathru Arogya Palana Scheme’. Further, extension of Mobile Health and Mobike Clinic Services to the villages which have no hospital and transport facilities is on the cards.
Other efforts are to set up free diagnostic centre in government hospitals under ‘Free Laboratory Services’.
Going by scores of organ transplant and brain dead cases in the state, the government is working to constitute an Organ Donation Facilitation Cell under Jeeva Sarthakathe Scheme.
The state which is already home to 20 government hospitals, 19 medical colleges will open new medical colleges at Karwar, Chamarajanagar and Madikeri. It will upgrade the Kalburgi Peripheral Cancer Centre at cost of Rs.50 crore, spruce up the basic infrastructure at Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital (OPEC), Raichur at a cost of Rs.35 crore. In additio, it will establish a new medical college in Bowring and Lady Curzon hospital Campus, Bengaluru with 150 seats, upgrade DIMHANS (Dharwad Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences ) under National Mental Health Programme at a cost of Rs.46.35 crore with state government’s share of 40 per cent.
Besides construction of Gastro Enterology Institute on the premises of SDSTB Centre in Bengaluru at a cost of Rs.10 crore, building a campus of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences at Archakara Halli, Ramanagara, and establishment of Women and Children Hospital at Kalburgi are on the cards.