GUWAHATI: In order to meet the shortage of doctors across the country, the union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government has proposed to attach a medical college to a district hospital in PPP mode.
These will be set up in 112 aspirational districts, said Sitharaman while presenting the union budget 2020-21.
“Viability gap funding window to be set up to cover hospitals, with priority given to aspirational districts that don't have hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat scheme,” said the FM.