K’taka Budget 2023: Super specialty hospital for Kumta announced

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai made a slew of announcements for the health sector in the state.

The community health centers at Khanapura, Anekal, Shirahtti, Shringeri, Yalandoor, Nelamangala, and Hosakote are to be upgraded to 100-bed Taluk hospitals.

Critical care blocks of 50 beds each at Kolar, Bagalakote, Yadgiri, Gadag, Chikkamagaluru, Ramanagara, Vijayanagara, and Doddaballapura for providing tertiary care. 100-bed critical care blocks to come up at Tumakuru and Bengaluru, the CM announced.

New Women and Child hospitals will be built in Haveri and Savanoor in the present year, he said.

Under ‘Mane Mane Arogya’, village health camps will be organized in all local primary health centres in 2023-24.

Rs 12.5 crores has been earmarked for the detection of TB using Handheld X-Ray machines, he said.

For providing affordable laboratory services, 129 Taluk level laboratories, district level laboratories for every district, and State Referral Laboratory in Bengaluru, will be constructed.

AIIMS-like Hospital for Raichur and a Super Speciality Hospital for Kumta in Uttara Kannada announced.

IVF Clinics to begin at Bengaluru, Hubballi, Mysuru, and Kalaburagi Institute of Medical Sciences.

Other Highlights:

• Implementation of Arogya Pushti Yojane for eradication of anaemia. Grant of Rs.100 crore under Health Department.
• Organizing Health Camps twice in 2023-24 for comprehensive health check-ups in rural areas under “Mane
  Manege Arogya” Programme. Grant of Rs. 12.50 crore for the initial detection of Tuberculosis. Expansion of Mental Health Scheme throughout the State at an expenditure of Rs.25 crore.
• Under “Jeevasudhe” scheme, provision of Rs. 12 crore for organizing Cancer Detection Camp. Programme for Children Health Check-up below 6 years of age under the “Vatsalya” Programme.
• Extension of free dialysis services up to 1 lakh cycles.
• Upgradation of Community Health Centres of seven taluk headquarters into 100 bedded Taluk hospitals.
• Free transportation facility for mothers and neo-natal children delivered in taluk hospitals under “Nagu Magu” Yojane. Grant of Rs.12.5 crore.
• Establishment of 129 Taluk laboratories, District laboratories in all districts and a State level referral laboratory in Bengaluru for providing laboratory services locally.
• Action for digitalization of health services and safe custody of health records of the patients.
• Establishment of Mother and Child Hospital in Savanur.
•  Establishing a fully Automated and Centralized Blood Bank Management System in Bengaluru Medical College and Research Institute at a cost of Rs.5 crore.
• Action to establish the Country’s first dedicated Public Hospital for Organ Transplantation at a cost of Rs.146 crores on the premises of NIMHANS