Government releases Rs 30 crore for new IGIMS college and hospital

PATNA: The state government has released Rs 30 crore out of the Rs 240 crore allotted for construction of a new medical college and hospital of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS).

IGIMS director N R Biswas, medical superintendent Dr Manish Mandal, Akhilesh Prasad and Rakesh Kumar from engineering and electrical sections and senior biomedical engineer Shailendra Kumar discussed the details of the new hospital at a meeting on Saturday.

“The meeting was to finalize the 3D layout of the hospital. The building will have six floors, including the ground floor. It will have three underground parking areas for doctors, staff members and patients. The building will be centrally air conditioned,” Dr Mandal said.

He said the proposed building will have 470 beds as per the Medical Council of India (MCI) norms. There will 210 beds for medicine and allied departments, 200 for surgery and allied departments and 60 beds for obstetrics/gynaecology and allied departments. The building will have seven major operation theatres (OTs) and two minor OTs.

The new hospital will have five beds each in intensive coronary care unit (ICCU), intensive care unit (ICU), burn unit, paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), neonatal care unit (NICU), surgical intensive care unit (SICU), medical intensive care unit (MICU) and renal intensive care unit. Ten beds would be there in the nursery with an OT. It will also have CT Scan and MRI facilities.

“We will soon float the tender for the hospital,” Dr Mandal said.