In a first of its kind initiative, the Central Paramilitary Forces (CPMFs) will soon get a multi-specialty hospital with all modern facilities where they will be able to provide secondary and tertiary medicare to troops of CPMFs. The home ministry has given its nod to the CPFs to set up a 200-bedded referral hospital spread over six acres of land in the national capital region at Greater Noida.

The hospital will be equipped with the infrastructure to handle emergency cases of the troops of all paramilitary forces like ITBP, CISF, CRPF, Assam Rifles, NSG, SSB and BSF. It will also have the facility of a helicopter landing space for immediate transportation of troops to the hospital. The modern hospital will have specialties in areas like cardio thoracic vascular surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, nephrology and gastroenterology similar to the Army's Research and Referral hospital. The ITBP has been designated as the nodal agency for recruitment of doctors for Central Police forces.