Chennai: Tamilnadu Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian called on Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandviya in New Delhi along with top officials and discussed various issues pertaining to the State, including allocating vaccines based on the size of the population, expediting construction work to set up the All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital near Madurai and setting up of 11 medical colleges in the State.
After the meeting, Subramanian said Mandaviya had assured him that the Centre would provide additional vaccine doses for full immunisation of people residing in nine districts of Tamilnadu, which share a border with Kerala.
“Nine districts of Tamil Nadu have road connectivity with Kerala. Several restrictions are already in place to monitor the movement of people. There is a need for 100 per cent vaccination of residents in these nine districts. The Union Minister has assured me that additional doses would be arranged for these nine districts,” Subramanian told the media in Delhi.
Stating that new Primary Health Centres had not been sanctioned to Tamilnadu in the last three years, Subramanian said, “we reiterated our earlier demand that we need 25 new PHCs in Tamilnadu”.