Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will inaugurate the newly constructed six-storey building of the Government Hospital, Periyar Nagar, Chennai, on February 28. The building was constructed at a cost of ₹213 crore, Health Minister Ma. Subramanian said.
On Friday, Mr. Subramanian and Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister P.K. Sekarbabu handed over to the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation a cheque for ₹84.17 crore for the procurement of equipment for the hospital (the fund was from the Vada Chennai Valarchi Thittam of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority).
Mr. Subramanian said the hospital started in 1986 and was functioning with 100 beds. The Chief Minister upgraded it into a 300-bed facility in May 2021.
The foundation stone was laid in March 2023 for the construction of an additional building with three floors to provide master health check-up and trauma care; it would also have a non-communicable diseases unit and dialysis and blood bank services under a World Bank scheme, at an estimated cost of ₹71.81 crore. Orders to construct three more floors to provide more speciality services, at a cost of ₹54.82 crore, was issued in March 2024.
The Health Minister said that 803 additional staff, including 102 doctors, 236 nurses, 79 paramedical staff, and 126 multi-purpose hospital workers, would be appointed. At least 600 in-patients and 5,000 outpatients would daily benefit from speciality services in the expanded trauma and emergency treatment unit, intensive care unit, differently-abled persons treatment unit, blood bank, cardiology, and obstetrics, besides the departments of gynaecology department, paediatrics, neurology, oncology, nephrology, gastroenterology, and plastic surgery.
The new building would feature air-conditioned rooms, as well as individual rooms with modern facilities, five lifts, central sterile supply department, modern laundry, central pharmacy, central laboratory, canteen, and waiting rooms.
As the government hospital is set to function on a par with the government medical college hospitals, the number of patients referred to other facilities for higher treatment would come down. This would benefit patients and also reduce the work burden of government medical college hospitals, he added, according to a press release.
Mayor R. Priya and Health Secretary Supriya Sahu were present.
Published – February 07, 2025 10:49 pm IST