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On meeting Sitharaman, who is in the city, the minister congratulated her for presenting a ”pragmatic budget’ ‘with health and well-being as one of the key pillars and sought her assistance to get an AIIMS for Karnataka and a sub-centre of NIMHANS in Kalyana Karnataka region, his office said in a statement.
He also discussed the State government’s plan to set up 4 state-of-the-art trauma centres to prevent fatalities due to road accidents and build a Health City with a cluster of super speciality hospitals for treatment of cancer, kidney, cardiovascular and other chronic ailments.
Hailing from the old-Mysuru region, Sudhakar also sought the Centre’s support for the expansion of irrigation facilities in the rain-fed Chikkaballpura and Kolar districts and bifurcation of Kolar-Chikkaballapura District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited and DCC Bank, the statement added.