Bill Gates to meet Akhilesh Yadav, discuss healthcare in UP

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to discuss healthcare in the state. 56-year-old Gates is likely to discuss a host of healthcare programmes that the Bill and Melinda Foundation plans to take up in the state.

An advance team from Gate's office had met senior officials in the state last week and done the ground work for the Gates-Akhilesh meeting.

The Microsoft founder is likely to present a five-point programme that his foundation plans to unveil in UP to enhance healthcare in sectors like neo-natal care, maternity, nutrition, family planning and child health.

Under the schemes, Gates proposes to suggest and fund include compulsory immunisation, timely and extensive care of a would-be-mother and her nutrition.

Gates is also understood to be particularly interested in taking up drives like polio eradication and other vaccinations, which are in poor state in UP.