Rs 40 crore sanctioned for Tambdemala hospital in Ambegaon, says Dilip Walse Patil

Rs 40 crore has been sanctioned for various development works at the Tambdemala hospital to strengthen healthcare facilities in Ambegaon taluka. Former Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil gave the information. According to him, the fully equipped 100-bed hospital there will soon begin serving the public.

Walse Patil also said there is a plan to provide a special health facility for women at the sub-district hospital currently running in Manchar.

He was speaking in Manchar, where the Rajani Prakash Foundation had organised a free health camp on the occasion of his birthday. The event marked the close of the camp. On the occasion, Diwali gifts and sweets were also distributed to health workers and ASHA workers.

Walse Patil said, "A strong network of state-of-the-art health facilities has been built in the taluka at Pabal, Ghodegaon and Manchar. A trauma care centre has been started in Manchar so that victims of highway accidents get immediate treatment. Along with health, an engineering college has also been built in the field of education, and residential schools have come up for tribal children in remote areas. The Development Plan (DP) of Manchar town is ready, and our emphasis will be on the planned development of the town."

Pune MHADA chairman and former MP Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil said in his address, "Ambegaon taluka has made great progress in health, education, employment and infrastructure. Dilip Walse Patil's contribution to this all-round development is very important."

Former MLA Popatrao Gawade and District Surgeon Ambadas Devmane also addressed the gathering. Sharad Sahakari Bank chairman Devendrasheth Shah praised the work of the health workers. He said free eye check-ups and spectacles would be distributed in tribal areas and concrete steps would be taken to eliminate malnutrition.

Those present included Purva Walse Patil, Netra Shah, Bhairavnath Sakh Sanstha vice-chairman Sagar Kajale, Panchayat Samiti chairman Kailasbuva Kale, municipal council president Sandeep (Laxman) Thorat, Zilla Parishad member Vishnu Hinge Patil, Mahila Congress president Sushma Shinde, tribal leader Subhashrao Moramare and taluka purchase-sales cooperative society chairman Navnath Hule. Office-bearers from various fields, doctors, staff and ASHA workers also attended in large numbers.