With the 11th Finance Commission recommending the release of Rs 27 crore to the state government, decks have been cleared for establishment of nine regional diagnostic centres (RDCs) in Bihar.
The state government has made a budgetary provision of Rs 13.57 crore for enabling the health department to start the construction work for these RDCs during the current financial year itself.
The RDCs will be located at Gaya, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Ara, Saharsa, Munger, Motihari, Chapra and Purnia. The Gaya, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur RDCs will be located on the government medical college hospital campuses as the sophisticated instruments to be installed at the centres are not available at these hospitals. The three RDCs will, however, have separate boundary walls.
The nine RDCs will have blood bank, CT scan, X-ray and pathological test facilities each. UNICEF is likely to give a generator set to each of these centres. The government will be spending Rs 3 crore on the establishment of each of these centres, including the cost of instruments to be purchased.
A mother and child health centre will also be set up at each of these RDCs with a view to providing better health care facilities to pregnant women and children. UNICEF has shown its willingness to release Rs 75 lakh for establishment of each of these nine mother and child health centres.
Source- Bihar Times, Sep-25,2006
