With an aim to improve the health care facilities in Uttar Pradesh the Yogi Government is planning to construct around 1,000 hospitals with modern contraptions under public-private-partnership (PPP) model and the project is likely to start from November this year.

leading consulting firm Ernst&Young has been asked to prepare a detailed project report

Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh said that government will identifytwo community health centres in each district. Their land, about three acres each, will be given on a long-term lease to private company which will construct a 100-bed hospital, along with an operation theatre and diagnostic centre, he said.

This proposal is yet to get cabinet approval. The Health minister said that once they get the approval from the Consulting form the blue print will be produced before the cabinet. “The cabinet approval will not be a problem as it will be an extension of the central government’s Ayushman Bharat scheme,” Singh said.

The minister said that he will also move a proposal in the cabinet to set a basic minimum module (BMM) for filling posts of doctors in district hospitals. “There is a rule for the same at present which is not being followed. Transfers of doctors are taking place erratically. Once the cabinet clears the BMM, it will become mandatory for establishment of certain posts in all hospitals,” he said.

For example, Singh said, there will be posts for ENT specialists, paediatricians, gynaecologists and orthopaedic surgeons. Unless all these posts are filled, no arbitrary transfers from such hospitals will be permitted, he said.

 Singh added that in case of shortage of doctors, the posts will be filled on contractual basis. When this government took charge there were shortage of 7500 doctors but in last one year 2500 posts have been filled. A process is on to fill the vacant posts. A tender will also be issued to hire doctors on contract,” Singh said.

This government decision came after health department had signed 27 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with pharmaceutical and healthcare companies inviting an investment  of Rs 6362 crore.

“This investment will not only bring a turnaround in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector but will also help in generating jobs in different parts of the state,” Singh said.

He said that investors have proposed to pump in Rs 5378 crore in healthcare sector while Rs 984 crore will be invested in the pharmaceutical sector. The total proposed investment in the health sector is likely to be Rs 6362 crore,” he said.

The minister said that new healthcare units will come up near Yamuna Expressway, Noida, Greater Noida, lucknow, Mathura, Ghaziabad and Moradabad.