Delhi Budget 2025-26: Capital to get two new medical colleges

During her Budget address in the Assembly, she said her government will also work towards alternative healthcare and will set up the Delhi State AYUSH Society (DSAS) to promote traditional medicine.

She said the pending construction work at 24 hospitals will also be completed. “These include projects for seven ICU hospitals, four new hospitals, and the expansion of 13 existing hospitals. Upon the completion of these projects, 16,186 beds will be added to Delhi government hospitals,” the Chief Minister asserted.

Factors such as a “severe” lack of funds and medical staff, and the absence of basic facilities such as rooms for doctors, nurses, mortuaries, and even parking spaces in the construction plans were said to have forced work at 24 new and existing hospitals into limbo.

Last September, the redevelopment of 13 existing hospitals, the construction of four new hospitals, and the re-engineering of seven new hospitals as ICU facilities were taken up as part of a consolidated project. These under-construction facilities now require funds to the tune of Rs 10,250 crore so that the work can be completed in three years — apart from an annual sum of Rs 8,000 crore to remain operational — as per the Delhi Health Department’s submissions at a review meeting.

The CM on Tuesday claimed the previous government had “ruined” the health services in the city.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there should be five beds available in hospitals for a population of one thousand. At present, 2.70 beds are available for a population of one thousand in the Capital.

The 2025-26 Budget includes allocations of Rs 3,421 crore for various projects and Rs 6,874 crore for schemes, and programmes under the health sector.