Estate health service brought under Health Ministry

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Parliament Sectoral Oversight Committee will shortly submit its recommendations to Parliament for the gradual take-over of the estate
sector healthcare by the Health Ministry
The programme envisages the programme transfer of the old colonial era estate healthcare to the national health system which will provide
the estate community full access to the country state-supported healthcare system
The sub-committee report on the acquisition of 450 health institutions in the estate sector, including estate hospitals to the Health
Ministry was handed over to the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Health and Human Welfare, Social Empowerment in Parliament yesterday 23rd of
October 2019.