It also laid the foundation stone for a 150-bed Critical Care Block.

It also laid the foundation stone for a 150-bed Critical Care Block. India has unveiled its Advanced Mother and Child Centre and Advanced Neurosciences Centre at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. The Advanced Neurosciences Centre, built at $50m (₹440 crore), expands PGIMER's neurology and neurosurgery capacity to 300 beds, it said in a press release. This comes as institutional deliveries account for over 90% of births in India, according to national health data cited by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. Accordingly, maternal mortality has fallen by 86%, and infant mortality has also declined substantially. The government also laid the foundation stone for a 150-bed Critical Care Block under the Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission scheme.
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