Centre non-committal on more funding, future of e-health at stake in Kerala

Kochi | Monday | 15th October, 2018

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Of the Rs 100 crore sanctioned by Centre in 2013, Rs 76 crore has been utilized for the pilot project itself. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After five years of its launch, it is going to be the end of e-health project in the state. Since the Centre is non-committal of further funding, now the state government is forced to source its own funds if it has to carry ahead with the e-health project. The pilot phase of this project could be completed only in January this year. The third phase of the project is supposed to cover all the government hospitals in the state.``The cost escalation and the delay in the execution of the project led to the derailment of the e-health project..