The state government will upgrade and create new super-speciality healthcare infrastructure, and double the budgetary expenditure to completely change the public health scenario by 2035. The existing system had faced severe criticism following deaths in some state-run public hospitals because of shortage of medicines and staff. A new plan, called Vision-2035, will be ready in a fortnight.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had convened a meeting on Monday to discuss measures to correct the ailing infrastructure. His deputies Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, the ministers concerned, state chief secretary, the medical education and public health secretaries, district collectors and the officials concerned with both departments, state health task force members, civil surgeons and deans of medical colleges attended the meeting.