Rest houses to be built inall govt medical colleges
02 Jan 2026 14:24:56
Staff Reporter:
TO IMPROVE health facilities in
public healthcare services across
Chhattisgarh, with the help of
Sevadan Arogya Foundation,
Chhattisgarh Medical Education
Department will setup rest houses for relatives and family members of patients in all government medical colleges
On Thursday, in the presence
of Chief Minister, Vishnu Deo
Sai, health minister Shyam Bihari
Jaiswal, Guru Khushwant Saheb,
Technical Education and Skill
Development Minister, Amit
Kataria, Health Secretary, Ritesh
Agrawal, Commissioner of
Chhattisgarh Medical Education
and officials of Sevadan Arogya
Foundation signed MoU of this
prestigious scheme.
The foundation will take the
responsibility of these rest houses in all government medical colleges where family members of
admitted patients in hospital will
get safe as well as hygiene accommodation with minimum
cost.
In all of these rest houses,
foundation and Chhattisgarh
Medical Education will install
CCTV camera and would provide nutritious foods to families
of the patientAt first, these rest houses will be established at campus of
state medical colleges in Raipur, Ambikapur, Raigarh and Jagdalpur where patients and their families from remote
areas reach every day to get cure and better medical facilities.
Till date, family members of patients reside in nearby private guest houses and hotels which charge high fares
from them.
In this regard, Chief Minister, Vishnu Deo Sai said that it
is the duty of State Government to take care of patients and
their attendants and in this phase, now the health department will setup rest houses in all state medical colleges.
Through these rest houses, families will get safe, hygiene
and better accommodation in campus of medical colleges.
Health Minister, Shyam Bihari Jaiswal stated that
Chhattisgarh Health Services is expanding its services and
with this MoU, state medical colleges will provide rest house
arrangements which will be constructed on the basis of ‘no
profit-no loss’ policy for family members of patients.