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The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has sanctioned 38 caller wellness and wellness centres (HWC) to Dakshina Kannada nether the Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) for 2025-26.
With a full outlay of ₹24.7 crore, these centres volition importantly heighten superior healthcare transportation crossed the district’s agrarian and semi-urban areas.
The sanctioned centres span crossed six taluks of the territory — Mangaluru, Moodbidri, Bantwal, Puttur, Belthangady, and Sullia — ensuring equitable organisation of wellness infrastructure.
Each HWC has been allocated ₹65 lakh, covering caller construction, CC artifact works, attack roads, and indispensable facilities. Of these, 9 centres autumn nether Mangaluru taluk, six successful Moodbidri, 8 successful Bantwal, 7 each successful Puttur and Belthangady, and 8 successful Sullia, reflecting a balanced attack toward strengthening the last-mile healthcare network, according to Capt. Brijesh Chowta, Dakshina Kannada MP.
“The caller HWCs reaffirm our government’s committedness to bringing prime superior healthcare person to each household successful Dakshina Kannada,” Capt. Chowta said successful a merchandise connected Monday.
The centres are designed with level oregon sloped extortion structures, closed step layouts, and modern amenities, ensuring durability and accessibility adjacent successful monsoon-prone agrarian terrain. Each centre volition service arsenic a hub for preventive, promotive, and basal curative services, straight benefiting residents crossed taluks.
“Health is the instauration of development. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision, our purpose is not conscionable to physique hospitals but to physique healthier communities,” the MP added.
All works are presently successful the tendered stage, and operation is expected to commence soon aft administrative clearances. Once completed, the 38 centres volition people a large milestone successful transforming Dakshina Kannada’s wellness infrastructure landscape, strengthening superior healthcare delivery, exigency preparedness, and illness surveillance successful enactment with the objectives of PM-ABHIM, Capt. Chowta said.
