SHILLONG, JAN 14: Meghalaya Health Minister Wailadmiki Shylla has set a goal to make quality healthcare accessible to rural areas, making it his New Year resolution.

“My goal is… (to ensure) health services reach the grassroot and that quality healthcare should be accessible not only in cities but till the rural areas,” Shylla said.

On the government’s plan to upgrade PHCs/CHCs, Shylla said, “We have done quite a number of them… we’ve created another category, PHC plus, where the number of beds and doctors will be increased.”

He added that more upgrades are in the pipeline, despite financial constraints.

The PHC plus model aims to bridge the gap between PHCs and CHCs, with more facilities than PHCs but less than CHCs.

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