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Anbumani for medical college in Tiruvannamalai

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He assures State Government of Centre’s support for the project

CHEYYAR: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the State Government to start a medical college in the backward Tiruvannamalai district.

At the inaugural function of a health mela organised under the MP’s Constituency Health Mela Scheme at Perungattur in the Cheyyar Assembly constituency on Saturday, he requested Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to establish a government medical college in Tiruvannamalai district which, he said, was educationally backward. The Centre would lend support for setting up of the college.

A model

Dr. Anbumani said the National Rural Health Mission, under which primary health centres and government hospitals were being modernised in phases, had come as a boon to the backward States such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, where health delivery was poor. Impressed with the scheme, the United Nations and the World Health Organisation had said the model would be recommended to other countries, he said.

Out of the Rs.17,800 crore allotted to the Health Ministry, Rs.15,000 crore was set aside for the mission, under which accredited social health activists had been appointed in 5.44 lakh out of the 6.20 lakh villages. These activists would be appointed in all Tamil Nadu villages before the end of this year. Cleanliness and sanitation committees, headed by panchayat presidents, would be constituted in all village panchayats.

And these committees would undertake public health activities such as anti-mosquito drives, based on the needs of the villages. The Centre would grant each committee Rs.10,000 a year. All the 23,000 primary health centres would be made 24-hour facilities before 2010, and about 8,000 centres had already started function round the clock.

Dr. Anbumani said that under the Janani Suraksha Yojana, the Centre gave Rs.1,400 each to pregnant mothers. A total of 31 lakh women received the payment in 2006-07, while 51 lakh would get it during 2007-2008. He promised the Centre’s support to the ‘Varumun Kappom’ being implemented by the State Government.

Minister of State for Railways R. Velu said Rs.3.36 lakh was allotted for the health mela. Cheyyar would get a rail link when the new route from Tindivanam to Nagari became operational.

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