After 8-Year Delay, 250-Bed PGI Hospital to be Inaugurated

After eight years of delay, a 250-bed hospital in PGI would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi next month. Sources said due to the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, all pending projects which were announced to be inaugurated in PGI by the PM would be done by next month. While the ribbon shall be cut, it will take another six months for the patients to be shifted. The reception has been made, having monitors for display of OPD attendance and chairs at the corner and even the building is complete. But a walk further inside shows that the furnishing inside is going on and the hospital will not be operational even after the inauguration. “The Union health ministry had questioned the delay of the hospital and had fixed a deadline. Despite this, the building which has been complete is still to have fittings of the beds, trolleys and other infrastructure which will take not less than another six months,” said a faculty member. When PGI director Dr Jagat Ram was asked about this, he said, “We have been almost daily pursuing the engineering department to complete the work soon.”

New PGI hospital to have 80 private rooms

After eight years of delay, a 250-bedded hospital in PGI would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi next month. The 250-bedded hospital will have 80 private rooms, and wards of four departments – ENT, radiotherapy, hepatology and endocrinology – will be shifted to its building. As an extension of the Nehru Hospital, it will be a green and efficient building. The foundation stones of mother and child and neuroscience centers will be laid by the PM. The mother and child care center will be built at a cost of Rs 485 crore. The neuro center will cost Rs 495 crore. The neuroscience center will be built near the market area of the Advanced Cardiac Center known as ‘Gol’ market. The space for mother and child care center has been earmarked behind the research block B. There is plan to connect this center with the Advanced Pediatric Center. – TOI