"Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi on Sunday appealed to private hospitals to offer subsidised services to the poor, as part of their social responsibility.
Inaugurating the first national annual conference of the 'Heart Failure Society' here, she referred to the high treatment cost of lifestyle diseases while stating that the Centre was setting up AIIMS-type institutions in six States and assisting in upgrading medicare in other States."