Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah revealed that the Azim Premji Foundation plans to invest ₹4,000 crore over five years to build and operate a new 1,000-bed charitable super-speciality hospital in Bengaluru. The hospital will be located on 10 acres within the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases campus. The government has agreed to lease this land to the Foundation for 99 years. The hospital will focus on multi-organ transplants and provide 70% of its services for free, with the remaining at minimal cost. "The Foundation will invest ₹1,000 crore to build the hospital and about ₹400 crore annually to run it," the CM said. Azim Premji Foundation CEO Anurag Behar stressed the importance of strong public health systems. He said, "Our commitment is to work with the government to strengthen them," highlighting preventive care through primary health centres and ASHA workers. Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash R. Patil mentioned that more than 5,000 kidney and over 1,000 liver transplant patients wait in Karnataka. He added the hospital supports the government’s plan to develop health infrastructure, aiming for universal health coverage like the UK. Currently, Karnataka has 22 government medical colleges, 10 super-speciality hospitals, eight trauma centres, and eight cancer centres. The state is halfway through a plan to set up one medical college, one super-speciality hospital, one trauma centre, and one cancer hospital in every district. This new hospital is a big step to improve tertiary healthcare and make cutting-edge treatments affordable for many.