Nashik: 3 health projects at New Bytco hospital to be put on fast track

Nashik: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) will speed up the pace of implementing three health-related projects at the New Bytco hospital.

The civic body had undertaken these projects some time ago, but it got delayed owing to various reasons. The proposed RT-PCR lab for conducting tests of all viral diseases, jumbo oxygen tank and medical college and hospital are expected to be operational within the next few months.

This is part of municipal commissioner Kailas Jadhav’s blueprint of upgrading the New Bytco hospital of the civic body to provide better health services to the city residents.

“We are already in the process of setting up the RT-PCR Lab at the new Bytco hospital. This lab will not only conduct swabs of Covid suspects but all the viral diseases like swine flu, dengue, among others,” Avesh Palod, city Covid officer of the NMC, said.

“A total of Rs 3.92 crore under the District Planning Committee has been transferred to the civic body. This will be a permanent lab for all the viral diseases and we are in the process of preparing a proposal for procurement of all the equipment required for the lab,” Palod said, adding that the proposed RT-PCR lab is expected to be operational by mid-April.