LUCKNOW, May 16 -- Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Friday directed officials to issue notices to private hospitals in the state that display 'trauma centre' signboards but fail to meet the prescribed standards for trauma care. Municipal corporations must intervene to remove these signboards, he said at an official meeting.

"Signboards placed by private hospitals in the vicinity of government hospitals, which are typically directed at patients and their attendants, should also be removed," he said.

Calling for steps to make the state cancer-free, he said the foundation of an empowered state and a developed nation is laid through healthy citizens.

He was addressing a presentation meeting aimed at further strengthening the Uttar P...