Haryana Health Minister, Ms. Arti Singh Rao said that under the leadership of Chief Minister, Sh. Nayab Singh Saini, the state government is bringing about transformative changes in healthcare services. Free dialysis services have already been launched across the state, and the scheme will now be expanded to 16 additional sub-divisional hospitals, including the one at Kanina in Mahendragarh district.
She said that the state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Medanta Hospital to strengthen maternal and child healthcare. Under this initiative, specialist doctors from Medanta will provide regular health monitoring and consultation to pregnant women and newborn babies.
The Health Minister was addressing a programme on Thursday organised during a dhanyawadi daura in the Ateli Assembly constituency of Mahendragarh district. During the visit, she inaugurated development works worth approximately Rs. 3.13 crore in the gram panchayats of Bocharia, Hassanpur, and Salimpur. Reviewing the ongoing development works in these villages, Ms. Rao said the state government is committed to ensuring comprehensive rural development and improving healthcare facilities across Haryana.
She also announced an additional Rs.11 lakh each for the gram panchayats of Bocharia and Hasanpur to undertake further development works. The minister said the government has placed the highest priority on development and public welfare, adding that no village in the Ateli Assembly constituency would be left behind.
Basic infrastructure and essential public services, she said, would be extended to every village. She said that development works worth approximately Rs. 1.50 crore have been completed in Bocharia and Hasanpur under various government schemes.
These include the construction of link roads, phirnis, chaupals, boundary walls, entrance gates, streets in BPL colonies, CCTV cameras, drinking water pipelines, welcome gates, and a farm road built at a cost of Rs. 53.44 lakh. In Salimpur, development projects worth around Rs. 1.67 crore have also been completed.
These include road construction, BC and SC chaupals, library furniture, a boundary wall around the playground, tin sheds, a drinking water tank, and an additional 2-kilometre road constructed at a cost of Rs. 56.84 lakh, along with several other civic infrastructure works.
The Health Minister also chaired a public grievance redressal programme at her office in Ateli, where she heard the problems of local residents and directed officers to ensure prompt, transparent, and time-bound resolution of issues related to public welfare.
Ateli MLA, Sh. Om Prakash Yadav and senior district officers were also present.