Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone of various facilities to be added at the Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) by the Rourkela Steel Plant on July 9 last.
It is worth mentioning here that as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, the RSP will be setting up a 100-bed Gynaecology Ward, a destitute home, a rest shed for the attendants, internal roads and lighting facilities at the RGH. The total expenditure towards this will be about Rs 3 crore.
Among others, Health and Family Welfare Minister Damodar Rout, Commerce and Transport Minister Subrat Tarai, MPs Dilip Tirkey and Mangala Kishan, RSP CEO GS Prasad, MlA Sarada Prasad Nayak, District Collector Roopa Roshan Sahu, SP Amitendra Nath Sinha and officials from the district administration and the RSP were present. Earlier, Patnaik got an impressive guard of honour from the CISF at the Air Strip.