Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Nayab Singh Saini, who also holds the portfolio of Finance Minister, while presenting the state budget for the year 2025-26 in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha on Monday said that in the last 10 years, the double-engine government has placed significant emphasis on Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathic systems of medicine.
Sharing 18 key highlight of Health sector for Budget 2025-26, the Chief Minister said that the budget for all the department's schemes has been increased from Rs. 9,391.87 crore, as compared to the Revised Estimates (RE) of 2024-25, by 8.17%, raising it to Rs. 10,159.54 crore in 2025-26.
The Chief Minister said that to improve the health of mothers and children in the state and to bring further improvements in maternal mortality rate, neonatal mortality rate, infant mortality rate and mortality rate of children below 5 years of age. 9 ultra-modern maternal and child health centers will be established in the district hospitals of Panchkula, Panipat, Faridabad, Sonipat, Palwal, Sirsa, Kaithal, Mahendragarh, and the Medical College in Nuh.
Hisar and Panipat district hospitals will be upgraded from 200 to 300 beds
The Chief Minister said that in the year 2014-15, Haryana had a total of 4 government hospitals with 200 beds and 2 government hospitals with 300 beds. Today, their numbers have increased to 18 and 3, respectively. He said that approval has been granted to upgrade the district hospitals of Palwal, Rohtak, and Charkhi Dadri, as well as Al Afia District Hospital in Mandikhera (Nuh), from 100 to 200 beds. In the financial year 2025-26, the district hospitals of Hisar and Panipat will be upgraded from 200 to 300 beds, and the district hospital of Jhajjar from 100 to 200 beds.
All district hospitals to have state-of-the-art medical facilities
The Chief Minister said that the government has set a target to make every district hospital the best hospital in that city with the same number of beds in the next 2 years. In the financial year 2025-26, modern services and state-of-the-art facilities like CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, blood analyzer and digital X-ray will be ensured in all district hospitals. Apart from this, private rooms will be arranged for patients in all district hospitals and shelter home facilities will also be provided for their companions, he said.
The Chief Minister further said that a 50-bed critical care block in every district hospital and government medical college will be established, along with modernizing the blood bank facilities.
The Chief Minister said that for enhancing trauma treatment facilities during accidents, the Government of India has approved an investment of Rs 201.59 crore for the year 2025-26 for 70 advanced life support ambulances and other infrastructural improvements in the district hospitals of 14 districts, namely Gurugram, Faridabad, Palwal, Mewat, Rewari, Mahendragarh, Jind, Bhiwani, Rohtak, Karnal, Panipat, Sonipat, Jhajjar, and Charkhi Dadri.
Day care centers for cancer patients to be established in the remaining 17 districts
The Chief Minister said that at present day care centers for cancer patients are operational in Panchkula, Kurukshetra, Ambala, Yamunanagar, and Faridabad. However, similar day care centers will now be established in the remaining 17 districts during the financial year 2025-26.
He said that the number of MBBS seats in the state will be increased from 2,185 to 2,485 for the financial year 2025-26. Besides this, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayaya University of Health Sciences, Kutail, along with the newly constructed 750-bed super specialty hospital, will also be started in the financial year 2025-26, shared Sh. Nayab Singh Saini.
The Chief Minister said that a Centre of Excellence will be established at Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government Medical College and Hospital, Nuh for preventive health in the state. Besides this, a budgetary provision of Rs. 20 core will be made for the modernization of state-level drug testing laboratory located in Kurukshetra.
The Chief Minister said that to promote the study, systematic teaching, training and research of non-allopathic medical systems, the construction work of the building of Shri Krishna Ayush University will be started in the financial year 2025-26 on about 100 acres of land in Fatuhpur village of district Kurukshetra. In this, provision has been made for 63 seats of BAMS and 82 seats of postgraduate level and 63 seats of Diploma in Pharmacy, shared Sh. Nayab Singh Saini.
Ayush Herbal Parks will be established in Rewari and Jind
The Chief Minister said that Ayush Herbal Parks will be established in Rewari and Jind. He said that provision of Government Homeopathic College will be made in village Chandpura of district Ambala, for this a 25-bed Homeopathic Hospital has been started in village Rampur-Sarsehdi Community Center.
He further informed that 421 AYUSH dispensaries and 111 sub health centers have been upgraded as Ayushman Arogya Mandir. Out of these, 201 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have received NABH certification. He said that adequate budget provision has been made for the remaining 332 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs to obtain such certification in the financial year 2025-26.
Furthermore, a system to provide guidance on AYUSH medical system and nutrition, diet and routine based on it to the general public will be set up at all the primary health centers and community health centers of the health department in the financial year 2025-26.