Trichy GH super-speciality block work progressing fast
With the new super-speciality block at the Mahatma
Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital nearing completion, Health Minister
C. Vijaya Baskar inspected the structure on Saturday and instructed
officials to complete the project quickly.
The ground
plus six-floor structure will house 12 speciality medical and surgical
departments of the hospital, attached to the K.A.P. Viswanatham
Government Medical College. The 400-bed block would have the departments
of cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery,
nephrology, urology, plastic surgery, paediatric surgery, medical and
surgical gastroenterology, medical and surgical oncology. The project
was sanctioned by the State government at an estimate of Rs. 100 crore.
Of this, Rs. 60 crore would be spent for the new building with a
built-up area of 32,475 square feet. The remaining Rs. 40 crore would be
utilised for procuring medical equipment. Transplant procedures and
trauma care would get a boost once the super-speciality block was
commissioned.
Although the 20-month contract for
completion of the new block runs till May 2014, already 90 per cent of
the civil works were said to have been completed and the block was
expected to be commissioned ahead of the deadline.
Going
through the new building along with Public Works Department engineers
and health officials, Mr. Vijaya Baskar asked the officials to expedite
the construction and installation works. He instructed the engineers to
make the operation theatre ensure zero infection rate facility.
Accompanied
by Khadi and Village Industries Minister T.P. Poonachi, Government
Chief Whip R. Manoharan, Rajya Sabha member T. Rathinaval and Collector
Jayashree Muralidharan, Mr. Vijaya Baskar inspected the outpatient
department, intensive care unit, and triage ward at the hospital.
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