Karnataka revamps healthcare system to fight pandemic: Health Minister

Bengaluru, Dec 28 : Karnataka is revamping its healthcare system to fight the Covid pandemic with more medical colleges and investment in hospitals, state Health Minister K. Sudhakar said on Monday.
“We are revamping the public healthcare system across the state despite the financial crunch due to the pandemic with a medical college in every district and super-specialty hospitals,” said Sudhakar at a function here.
Since the ruling BJP came to power in the southern state in July 2019, the state government cleared four medical colleges and three of them are functioning, with the fourth — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences to be unveiled in this tech city on Tuesday.
“Our aim is to have a medical college with a super-specialty hospital attached to it in every district across the state to provide best health care so that people need not go to cities for treatment,” asserted Sudhakar, a medical doctor.
In the 30 districts across the southern state, government-run medical colleges are in 21 districts and none in 9 districts.
“We plan to build a medical college in each of the remaining 9 districts with modern hospitals under the public-private partnership (PPP) model,” said Sudhakar.