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Udupi : Siddaramaih, Chief Minister of Karnataka State will lay the foundation stone for the building of the District Maternity and Child Hosptial in a programme to be organized at the Town Hall, Udupi  on Sunday, 30^th October, 2016, said Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of Fisheries, Sports and Youth Empowerment.

He was speaking with media persons at his residence at Ammunje near Kolalgiri, said that the Memorandum of Understanding between Health Department of Government of Karnataka and Overseas Entrepreneur and Managing Director of New Medical Centre, UAE for setting up a charity and a center for excellence hospital without any commercial interest to promote health care for the poor people.

He said that the 200 beded Mother and Child Hospital will be constructed by BRS Health Research Institute Private Limited within one year.

He said that day by day the number of patients is increasing that in Udupi we can see large number of migrated population. The present hospital of 70 beds which has unhygienic condition. There are no facilities available to emergency and other critical cases. There will be no financial commitment from the government for this project which will provide all medical services free of cost for BPL card holders and for health assurance beneficiaries. The service for MOC hospital seeking emergency treatment is completely free of cost. Deputy Commissioner, district health officer, district surgeon and representatives from the service provider will monitor the progress of the project.

The hospital of two hundred beds will be named after Koosamma Shambu Shetty Memorial Haji Abdulla Maternity Children’s Charity Hospital. 30 years lease period which will be extended by mutual agreement of sixty years. The monitoring committee shall review the implementation of the MOU once every quarter. With the consent of both the parties a third party evaluation will be conducted, he said.

District Health Officer K. Rohini, Dr. B. R. Shetty representative M Srinagesh Hegde and others were present during the press meet.