Updated On: 16 February, 2021 08:24 AM IST | Aurangabad | PTI
Tope said that his department would recruit additional manpower and was also planning to strengthen health facilities in the state by implementing various projects.

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The Health department in Maharashtra is expecting a provision of at least Rs 4,000 crore in the upcoming state Budget 2021-22 for completing the pending works, minister Rajesh Tope said on Monday.
"As per the guidelines of the Planning Commission, 5 per cent of (state) GDP should be allocated for Health, but till now this allocation never crossed 1 per cent," he told reporters.