Parliament’s Sectoral Oversight Committee will shortly submit its recommendations to Parliament for the gradual take-over of the estate sector healthcare by the Health Ministry. The programme envisages the programme transfer of the old colonial era estate healthcare to the national health system which will provide the estate community full access to the country’s state-supported healthcare system. The sub-committee report on the acquisition of 450 health institutions in the estate sector, including estate hospitals to the Health Ministry was handed over to the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Health and Human Welfare, Social Empowerment in Parliament yesterday 23rd of October 2019.
