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This project, which is expected to cost around Rs 40 crore, might also involve a private healthcare investor from Sweden. The first phase of the 400-bed hospital could be implemented within 2003.

KOLKATA, Jan 1

THE Swedish NRI, Mr Bicky Chakraborty, is keen on bringing funds from various Swedish agencies to improve the rural healthcare system in West Bengal.

Speaking to Business Line, Mr Chakraborty, who runs a hotel chain in Sweden, said that he had already met Dr Asim Dasgupta, the State Finance Minister, and Mr Suryakanta Misra, the Health Minister, and would be waiting for a detailed report from the Government on the primary healthcare centres.

"I have visited the New Barrackpore municipal health centre and I think it can be developed as a model," he said.

Mr Chakraborty, along with some doctors, has already invested in a Rs 20-crore hospital project in Andul in Howrah district. He is now seeking land for building a bigger hospital closer to the city.

This project, which is expected to cost around Rs 40 crore, might also involve a private healthcare investor from Sweden.

Mr Chakraborty said that if land is given within the next six months, the first phase of the 400-bed hospital could be implemented within 2003.

On the plan to improve the healthcare system in the State, he said that based on a written report from the Government, efforts would be made to get funds from the Swedish International Development Agency and other philanthropic organisations.

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