‘Speed up Nadu-Nedu works under health sector on priority’
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has ordered the officials of the Medical, Health & Family Welfare Department to finalise the tenders for the construction of new medical colleges and augmentation of infrastructure in the existing ones by April 15.
He has also directed that steps be taken for speedy execution of works under the Nadu-Nedu programme in the health sector in tune with the priority attached to it by the government.
Addressing a review meeting on Thursday on the programme under which development works were being taken up at an estimated cost of ₹16,270 crore, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said emphasis should be laid on the establishment of YSR urban and village clinics, which were intended to take healthcare to the grassroots level.