2 medi-cities to come up in state
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The chief minister seems to have her sights set on the booming medical tourism sector—a meaty budget of Rs 4,000 crore has been quoted for the construction of two massive ‘Medi-cities’, to attract international patients to Tamil Nadu for medical treatment.
These medical cities will include world-class hospitals and clinics, medical colleges, laboratories and high tech research institutes within the same campus, the chief minister has promised in her Vision 2023 agenda.
“India is ranked among the top 10 global destinations for healthcare and Tamil Nadu ‘s medical cities will provide world-class treatment at competitive rates,” Ms Jayalalithaa says in her document.
Spurring growth in the rural set-up, primary health centres will be upgraded by increasing bed strength and adding laboratories, radiology and dietary infrastructure.
As many as 1,000 laboratories and collection centres can be expected to spring up across the state in the next 11 years.
To boost medical education in the state, 15 new medical colleges will be established in various districts, at the cost of Rs 2,000 crore and Rs 1,500 crore will be spent on setting up 10 new private medical colleges.
The vision also aims to convert district and taluk hospitals into tech-savvy, patient-friendly facilities by implementing an electronic medical records management system with an investment of Rs 300 crore.
The vision document also promises to ensure that all medicines on the Essential Drugs List will be available across all locations in the state.
Currently, an average of 88 per cent of these drugs are available here—Namakkal scoring a high 100 per cent availability as against coastal districts of Nagapattinam and Thoothikudi where only 77 per cent of essential drugs is available.
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