Jamshedpur, Dec. 16 -- The state health department has decided to tag and handover all the district Sadar hospitals with their nearest medical colleges and the latter will henceforth be accountable for the functioning and operation for these hospitals, officials said on Tuesday.

A decision to this effect was taken in a high-level meeting of the department for strengthening the state's health infrastructure under the chairmanship of Ajay Kumar Singh, additional chief secretary in-charge of health, family welfare and medical education department here.

National Health Mission (NHM) state MD Shashi Prakash Jha, additional secretary Vidyanand Sharma Pankaj, joint secretary Lalit Mohan Shukla, director in-charge (health services) Dr Siddharth...