Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday claimed that the West Bengal government has invested Rs 70,000 crore in healthcare infrastructure, which it claims is the best in the country.
The Trinamool Congress has provided a detailed account of projects and initiatives carried out in Bengal’s health sector over the past 14 years on social media.
It claimed that the Mamata Banerjee government spent Rs 2,000 crore per year only for securing free treatment at the government hospitals and for providing free medicines and diagnostic tests. The budgetary allocation has increased six times in the past 14 years. When the Trinamool Congress came to power in 2010-11, the budgetary allocation to the health sector in the state stood at Rs 3,584 crore while the figure has gone up to Rs 21,355 crore in 2025-26.
In a post on X, Trinamool Congress wrote: “Under the leadership of Smt. @MamataOfficial, Bengal’s healthcare system is witnessing a historic transformation. From 210 Mobile Medical Units delivering doorstep care to a sixfold increase in the health budget, the state is building one of India’s strongest public health ecosystems.”
The party said: “Rs 70,000 crore has been invested, 14 new medical colleges and 42 super-speciality hospitals have come up. From Swasthya Sathi to Chokher Alo to Shishu Sathi, Bengal is proving that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.”
According to data, the number of beds in government hospitals under the current government has gone up by 40,000 taking the figure to 97,000.
bout 13,500 Suswasthya Kendras have been set up across Bengal. Around 14,000 doctors have been recruited and the nursing institutes have gone from 57 to 451. Around 49 trauma care centers have been introduced. Cord Blood bank and Human Milk bank was set up at SSKM while a Yoga and Naturopathy College has been constructed in Howrah’s Belur.
Around 26 lakh free cataract surgeries have been performed under “Chokher Alo” scheme and 34 lakh spectacles have been distributed. Around 64,000 surgeries have been carried out on children under “Sishu Sathi” scheme and the state government has spent Rs 307 crore for the project. Infant mortality rate has gone down to 19 in 2025 from what stood at 34 in 2011.