GUWAHATI, June 15 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today reiterated the State government’s plan to introduce right to health services wherein free healthcare services would be given to all poor and common people, and gradually the spectrum of the services would be scaled up to cover all sections of the people of the State. Speaking at the inaugural function of the 200-bed District Hospital at Sonapur today, Gogoi said that providing affordable, accessible, accountable and quality healthcare services to all sections of the people had been a long cherished commitment and the government was working persistently towards that end. He further said that the right to health services, which the government is contemplating to bring in, would ensure basic healthcare to everybody. Asserting his commitment to ensure better health to all, Gogoi said the government had passed on necessary instruction to the health and family welfare department to ensure better treatment, better medicines to reduce maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate and finally improving the overall health scenario in the State. He said with the existing medical colleges and hospitals, the proposed four medical college and hospitals being set up at Diphu, Dhubri, Nagaon and Lakhimpur would be able to take healthcare to every family. @http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jun1615/at055

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