Chief Minister to inaugurate 18 buildings, give appointment orders

CHENNAI: Health Minister Ma Subramanian informed that 5 buildings at a cost of Rs 5.7 crore through the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and 10 buildings at Rs 22.93 crore through the Department of Medical and Rural Welfare will be inaugurated by Chief Minister MK Stalin on August 27. He will inaugurate 18 buildings constructed at a cost of Rs 116 crore. He’ll also issue appointment orders to 243 people including 152 people in the DPH, 77 in the Department of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy, 6 in the State Health Transport Department, and 2 in the Department of Medicine and Rural Welfare. Battery cars with stretchers to transfer patients in 24 medical college hospitals will also be handed over. They’re being procured at a cost of Rs 1.3 crore.