High-Tech Military Hospital will be Built in Uttar Pradesh | 24 Feb 2023

Why In News?

According to information received from the media on February 23, 2023, a multi-super specialty military hospital with state-of-the-art facilities will be constructed in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh and the capital Lucknow.

Key points

• The purpose of constructing the Multi Super Speciality Military Hospital is to provide better medical facilities to the soldiers, military families engaged in the service of the country.
• It is noteworthy that about a decade ago, the Central Command had expressed the need for a military hospital with state-of-the-art facilities in the western Uttar Pradesh sub-area. A proposal was also made for this in the year 2011-2012.
• In 2012-2013, the proposal was first sent to the Central Command and then to the Defence Ministry. Now the Ministry of Defence has approved the construction of a multi-super specialty military hospital with state-of-the-art facilities on defence land in Meerut, along with a state-of-the-art military hospital in the capital Lucknow, which will be the largest military hospital of the Central Command.
• This multi-super speciality military hospital in Meerut will be constructed at a cost of Rs 379 crore. This hospital will have 545 beds.
• The army has already marked the land between Bhagat Chowk to Augharnath Temple in Meerut for the Multi Super Specialty Military Hospital. The board of 'Site for MH' had already been installed on the land proposed by the army. This new military hospital will benefit soldiers, ex-servicemen and their families from 14 districts of western Uttar Pradesh.