Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily and Chief Minister of Karnataka Jagadish Shettar laid the foundation stone for the construction of a 12,000 sq feet block, sponsored by ONGC-MRPL (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation – Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited) as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility programme.
Assuring the speedy completion of the new block, Mr Moily said that the construction would begin in full swing and would be completed within 18 months.
He said that the facilities of the hospital and its new block should reach even the poor people, and said that ONGC-MRPL was ready to undertake the complete project of furnishing the new block, including provision of latest equipment, laboratories and well-equipped ambulances. Steps should be taken towards ensuring zero-deaths of infants, children and women in hospitals, he said, adding that efficient management should be ensured by the district administration in a hospital, which saw around 6,000-7,000 deliveries in a year.
The plague was unveiled by Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC Sudhir Vasudeva and Managing Director of MRPL P P Upadhya. Both were felicitated by the district administration on the occasion.
Besides the foundation stone-laying, the new premises of a blood bank run by the Indian Red Cross Society, Mangalore, was inaugurated on the occasion as a wing of the Lady Goschen Hospital.
Speaking on the occasion, CM Jagadish Shettar announced a new scheme 'Soubhagya Saujini' for clean drinking water, under the multi-village drinking water scheme, for which provision has been made for grants in the State budget for 2013-14.
He said that there was plenty of water available in the districts of Uttar Kannada, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada in the coastal bed, which had not used in the most optimum way. Rs 200 crore has already been allotted in the first phase in the budget for this scheme, which holds a total estimated expenditure of Rs 450 crore, he said, adding that Rs 238 crore had been allotted to the Department of Fisheries in the budget.
Speaking about the new block in Lady Goschen Hospital, he said that the women of the region would benefit from the new block, and added that the state government was ready to provide additional facilities to the hospital if required.
A Tertiary Treatment Plant to treat the secondary treated effluent of Sewage treatment plant of Mangalore City Corporationwas formally inaugurated by Mr Shettar on the occasion. Constructed by Mangalore SEZ Ltd, the treatment plant will have a capacity of 22.5 Million Litres per day. This is the only one such large scale plant in India.
Mr Shettar also released the hand-outs of Vajpayee Arogyasri Yojana, which is Karnataka State government's flagship health insurance scheme, which helps families living below the poverty line (BPL) to avail themselves of medical benefits.
The programme was presided over by Deputy Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly N Yogish Bhat.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Aravinda Limbavali, Udupi-Chikmagalur MP Jayaprakash Hegde, Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK district-in-charge minister C T Ravi, MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik, MLAs Ramanath Rai, U T Khader and Krishna J Palemar, Deputy Commissioner N Prakash and others were present on the occasion.
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