Union Minister of State for Health Ashwani Kumar Choubey on May 13 said the sub health centres were being upgraded to health and wellness centres under the Centre`s ambitious Ayushman Bharat programme.

After inaugurating 8 new facilities at All India Institute of Medical Sciences here, Mr Choubey said the Centre was fully committed to providing proper health facilities to 50 crore people of the country. He said 12 health services would be made available at health and wellness centres. Mr Choubey said that wellness centres would be opened in the rural belt so that maximum number of villagers could have access to these facilities.

He said a sum of Rs 200 crore had been earmarked for the purpose. Mr Choubey said new facilities had been provided in the  departments of gastrology, neurology, burn and plastic surgery, transfusion medicine and blood bank, surgical gastrology and  psychology at AIIMS, Patna. He said the people of Bihar and neighouring states would not need to go outside with the availability of these facilities at AIIMS, Patna. Mr Choubey said the government`s resolve, “Aapka Chikitsak Aapke Dwar” had started yielding results. The union minister said the  people would get better health facilities in the future under ‘Namo Care’ scheme.