The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a loan of Rs 4,000 crore to improve medical facilities in Maharashtra. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde informed that the in-principle approval for the first tranche of Rs 1,200 crore has been given. Further, the CM has instructed officials to start work for the construction of a 500-bed hospital in Dharashiv (formerly Osmanabad).

The ADB has suggested seven different types of improvements at administrative level and also in medical education. It includes centre of excellence, digital medical education and health policy, e-hospital, sustainability policy, recruitment centres, decentralisation of medicine procurement and others. 

The tender procedure for construction of similar infrastructure at Alibaug in Raigad district is completed while process for Kolhapur and Sindhudurg is going on. After inaugurating a super speciality hospital in Ulhasnagar in Thane, the CM said that his government aimed to start a medical college and super speciality hospital in every district.