NAKODAR
In the year 2013, the Punjab government did not accept the feasibility report prepared by the Health and Family Welfare Department to upgrade Nakodar Civil Hospital from the existing 50 beds to 100 beds.
In a reply under the Right to Information Act, the public information officer of The Punjab Health Systems Corporation had said that Rs 690.00 lakhs were sanctioned in the year 2013-2014 under the Incentive Grant-in aid scheme to upgrade sub-divisional hospital Nakodar. The reply had said that a proposal had been made to demolish the old building of the Family planning unit and construct a new three-story building.
Punjab Health System Corporation had said that a thirty-bed mother-child hospital (MCH), a central government scheme, would be constructed at Nakodar Civil Hospital with two to three independent operation theatres.
The Health and Family Welfare Department of the state in its feasibility report prepared on the High Court’s directions, had said that 58 new medical and nonmedical posts had to be created at a total cost of Rs1.74 14820 for upgrading Nakodar Civil Hospital from the existing 50 beds to 100 beds. In a reply under the Right to Information Act, the director of health and family welfare had said in 2014 that a proposal in this regard was sent to the principal secretary of health.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had directed the authorities concerned to prepare a feasibility report on Nakodar Civil Hospital’s up-gradation disposing of a civil writ petition filed by social activist Aditya Bhatara on July 12, 2013.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Maan on February 28 inaugurated Mother Child Hospital in Nakodar