200-bed hospital for Guwahati
A STAFF REPORTER TELEGRAPH INDIA Chief minister Tarun Gogoi
lays the foundation stone of the civil hospital at Amingaon in Guwahati on
Saturday. Picture by Eastern Projections Guwahati, Nov. 10: Dispur has
decided to set up a 200-bed civil hospital at Amingaon within two years to ease
the burden of patients on the two premier government hospitals of the city
the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and the Mahendra Mohan
Choudhury Hospital (MMCH).
The civil hospital will come up at a cost of Rs 20 crore.
The Tolaram Bafna Civil Hospital will be situated on the national highway
and therefore, easily accessible. It will be ready in two years time. Once
complete, it will help reduce the rush of patients at the two city hospitals,
health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said during the foundation stone laying
function this afternoon. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi was the chief guest at the
function.
The Tolaram Bafna Memorial Trust has donated the land for the hospital. The
project is being funded under the National Rural Health Mission.
The new hospital will be equipped with modern facilities and have its own
trauma centre. It will also recruit 200 staff.
The hospital is being built under the Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS).
These are envisaged to improve the quality of healthcare in the country under
the National Rural Health Mission.
The IPHS standards for district hospital states that it should provide
comprehensive secondary healthcare (specialist and referral services) to the
community through district hospitals.
The new hospital is part of governments plan to upgrade healthcare
facilities in Lower Assam. The health infrastructure in Lower Assam is being
upgraded either by setting up new hospitals in the districts or by upgrading
the existing ones, Sarma added.
He hoped that soon the state would emerge as one of the leaders in the
country in the healthcare sector.
The chief minister thanked the Tolaram Bafna Memorial Trust for donating the
plot of land and asked the others to emulate the example. The government is
giving top priority to the healthcare sector, he added.
Kamrup deputy commissioner R.C. Jain sought the co-operation of one and all
for completing the hospital in time.
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