Samsung plans to set up 15 Smart healthcare centers in TN

NewsBharati    19-Feb-2018
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Chennai, February 19: Although the government is setting up new initiatives to bring out ways to enhance healthcare services in the country, it also is accepting foreign investors to invest in this sector. In a move to provide a helping hand the Korean electronics major Samsung has inked a partnership with the Government of Tamil Nadu for setting up 15 Smart Healthcare centres in the State.


 

Under the initiative, Samsung will provide advanced healthcare equipment like digital ultrasound units, X-ray machines, apart from LED TVs, air conditioners, and refrigerators, to select government hospitals. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Samsung India and Department of Medical, Health and Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu, on November 2017.

Chief Minister K Palaniswami at a function held in Coimbatore recently, formally launched the 15 Samsung Smart Health Centres in the State. Also on the occasion, he unveiled a Healthcare Centre at a government hospital in Edappadi, in Salem district.

Samsung said it had also partnered with Government of Karnataka, and has provided 1,000 tab IRIS to the public health centres in the state. The tab IRIS was the first commercial IRIS integrated tablet to be approved by UIDAI for Aadhaar, it added.