NAGPUR: Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) has moved a proposal to build a state-of-the-art 568-bed super speciality hospital on 8-acre land of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital and Research Centre (BAHRC) at Indora.
Said to be a dream project of North Nagpur MLA and guardian minister Nitin Raut, the proposed hospital is planned at a cost of Rs1,021 crore. Affiliated to IGGMCH, the BAHRC has been running only outpatient departments (OPDs) since its start in 2014.
Earlier, a Rs250 crore Sickle Cell Centre of Excellence too was proposed on the premises, but the project has been abandoned.
As per the proposal, a nursing college offering BSc and MSc courses with an intake of 50 students too would be attached to the new hospital. Land for the college campus has been identified on Kamptee Ring Road, about 2km from BAHRC. However, no medical college is proposed there as the city already has three — GMCH, IGGMCH and AIIMS.
BAHRC too will get a makeover and the project is likely to commence soon after budgetary allocation by the state government.
IGGMCH medical superintendent Dr Ravi Chauhan has been named officer on special duty (OSD) for the project. Dr Chauhan is also an administrator of the BAHRC.
Dr Chauhan said Raut has been pursuing the project since 1998. The new hospital’s capacity can be augmented up to 900-beds, he said.
“We have realized from Covid-19 experience that the existing infrastructure is not enough. Hence, the new hospital’s capacity can be enhanced to 900-beds,” he said.
The superspeciality hospital proposal also came up for discussion before the NIT board on Wednesday.
NMC standing committee chief Vijay Zalke, who is an NIT trustee, said the civic agency has approved its share of 25% for boosting health infrastructure at existing medical colleges and the new hospital at Indora.
The development comes as a major respite for BAHRC which has been in a shambles. Defecation, dumping of debris and movement of anti-social elements are rampant on the premises.