Mysuru will get cancer hospital: K Sudhakar

MYSURU: Health minister K Sudhakar on Thursday said a cancer hospital, estimated to cost of Rs 130 crore, will be sanctioned to Mysuru.
“In the next cabinet meeting, a cancer hospital costing Rs 130 crore will be sanctioned to Mysuru. Rs 50 crore grants will be sanctioned in phase 1,” the minister told reporters here.
Tenders for the modernisation of KR Hospital are being floated.The facility will be upgraded at an estimated cost of Rs 89 crore. Permission has been issued for the recruitment of medical and paramedical staff to super-specialty hospitals, and the facility will start functioning soon. Namma Clinics will be inaugurated in November, he added.
Attacking Congress and JD(S) over their yatras, Sudhakar stated they were not aware of problems (being faced by the people of Karntaka) in the last four-and-a-half years. “All of sudden, they have come to know about the problems,” he said, and added that the common man is aware of BJP’s achievements.
Speaking on MLC A H Vishwanath, Sudhakar said he was the JD(S) state president. “I think he will not quit BJP. Even though he lost in the byelection, BJP has made him an MLC,” he said, and added that Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar are not united.