11 Mother-child Health Hospitals to Come Up in Karnataka State.

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), along with the state government, will construct mother-child health (MCH) hospitals at 11 places in the state.

The proposed hospitals will have a capacity of 30, 60 or 100 beds. The hospitals will be set up in Yadgir, Gokak (Belgaum district), Santhemaranahalli (Chamarajanagar district), Mangalore (Dakshina Kannada district), Chintamani and Gowribidanur (Chikballapur district), Tiptur (Tumkur district), Sagar (Shimoga district), Nanjangud and KR Nagar (Mysore district), and Jayanagar in Bangalore.

While Nanjangud and KR Nagar will get a 30-bed hospital (Rs. 8 crore per hospital), Santhemaranahalli, Tiptur, Sagar and Chintamani will get a 60-bed hospital (Rs. 12 crore per hospital). At Bangalore, Yadgir, Gokak, Mangalore and Gowribidanur, 100-bed hospitals will be built (Rs. 14 crore per hospital). The decision to construct these hospitals was taken in 2012-13 to tackle the shortage of maternity beds in the district and sub-district hospitals and to increase institutional deliveries. They are being set up at places with a high delivery rate and facing a shortage of beds, said an NRHM source.


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