Nagpur: District guardian minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday allocated Rs 5 crore to the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) for equipment and other infrastructure works.
The funds come specially to mark the Golden Jubilee of the college. The celebrations will begin on December 23.
Bawankule asked the college to immediately submit the proposal based on requirement of each department by Monday evening. He earlier held a meeting of the heads of every department and heard their demands. The money for the college comes from the mining department's Rs 90 crore fund.
The remaining money will also be used for developmental works of the district. Besides the equipment, the college also got Rs 1.18 crore for completing the compound wall, and Rs 15.7 lakh to demolish 96 old quarters. PWD engineers have been asked to complete these works at the earliest.
"We are very happy that this money is coming to us at a very right time. We will be able to remove various existing infrastructural deficiencies pointed out by the Medical Council of India. We also require having various equipment under a PIL going on in the court. I am personally indebted to the minister as I would get the much-required PCR for sickle cell patients," said Dr Anuradha V Shrikhande, acting dean of the college.
The break-up of the remaining money includes Rs 1.5 crore for the medicine department to buy 12 ventilators and three hemodynamic machines for dialysis, Rs 25 lakh for Aterial Blood Gas analyser, paediatric intensive care unit, and neonatal intensive care unit, and Rs 1.2 crore for the pulmonology equipment for chest department.
The obstetrics and gynaecology department has got Rs 35 lakh for two ventilators in ICU, monitor and fibrillator. Microbiology and physiology departments received Rs 20 lakh each for equipment. The biochemistry department will be getting Rs 30 lakh for thyroid kit and autoanlyzer and pharmacology department Rs15 lakh for setting up an internal drug dispensary.
Ophthalmology and pathology departments will receive Rs 15 lakh each, while blood bank renovation would be done at a cost of Rs 10 lakh. The orthopaedics department will get Rs 25 lakh for an operation theatre and equipment. The skin and forensic department would be getting Rs 50 lakh and Rs 15 lakh respectively. The anaesthesia department has been allocated Rs 20 lakh for ABG and monitors.
Bawankule, who is also the energy minister, gave a cheque for Rs 25 lakh separately for energy conservation in the college. The college has been asked to replace all the existing old lights with LED as well as other high electricity consuming instruments with five star-rated ones.
The funds come specially to mark the Golden Jubilee of the college. The celebrations will begin on December 23.
Bawankule asked the college to immediately submit the proposal based on requirement of each department by Monday evening. He earlier held a meeting of the heads of every department and heard their demands. The money for the college comes from the mining department's Rs 90 crore fund.
The remaining money will also be used for developmental works of the district. Besides the equipment, the college also got Rs 1.18 crore for completing the compound wall, and Rs 15.7 lakh to demolish 96 old quarters. PWD engineers have been asked to complete these works at the earliest.
"We are very happy that this money is coming to us at a very right time. We will be able to remove various existing infrastructural deficiencies pointed out by the Medical Council of India. We also require having various equipment under a PIL going on in the court. I am personally indebted to the minister as I would get the much-required PCR for sickle cell patients," said Dr Anuradha V Shrikhande, acting dean of the college.
The break-up of the remaining money includes Rs 1.5 crore for the medicine department to buy 12 ventilators and three hemodynamic machines for dialysis, Rs 25 lakh for Aterial Blood Gas analyser, paediatric intensive care unit, and neonatal intensive care unit, and Rs 1.2 crore for the pulmonology equipment for chest department.
The obstetrics and gynaecology department has got Rs 35 lakh for two ventilators in ICU, monitor and fibrillator. Microbiology and physiology departments received Rs 20 lakh each for equipment. The biochemistry department will be getting Rs 30 lakh for thyroid kit and autoanlyzer and pharmacology department Rs15 lakh for setting up an internal drug dispensary.
Ophthalmology and pathology departments will receive Rs 15 lakh each, while blood bank renovation would be done at a cost of Rs 10 lakh. The orthopaedics department will get Rs 25 lakh for an operation theatre and equipment. The skin and forensic department would be getting Rs 50 lakh and Rs 15 lakh respectively. The anaesthesia department has been allocated Rs 20 lakh for ABG and monitors.
Bawankule, who is also the energy minister, gave a cheque for Rs 25 lakh separately for energy conservation in the college. The college has been asked to replace all the existing old lights with LED as well as other high electricity consuming instruments with five star-rated ones.
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