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Tribune News ServicePanchkula June 10Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today laid the foundation stone of a 200-bed Maternal and Child Health Block at the Civil Hospital in Sector 6 through videoconferencing from Haryana Niwas Chandigarh. The exclusive block will be 11-storeyed (three basements and eight floors) and the tallest building of any medical institution in Panchkula as well as the tricity. In the 300-bed Civil Hospital at present 100 beds are dedicated to maternal and paediatrics care. “With the construction of this building the capacity of the Civil Hospital will be increased to 500 beds” an official press note said. Khattar also laid the stone of a malaria office at the Civil Hospital..