Bill Gates to meet Akhilesh Yadav

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday to discuss healthcare in the state.

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The 56-year-old Gates is likely to discuss a host of healthcare programmes that Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to take up in the state.

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An advance team from Gate's office has met senior officials in the state last week and done the ground work for the Gates-Akhilesh meeting.u00a0

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Gates is likely to present a five-point programme that his foundation plans to unveil in UP to enhance healthcare in sectors like neo-natal care, maternity, nutrition, family planning and child health.

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The schemes Gates proposes to suggest and fund include compulsory immunization, timely and extensive care of a would-be-mother and her nutrition.u00a0

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Gates is also understood to be particularly interested in taking up drives like polio eradication and other vaccinations, which are in a poor state in UP.

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