Three medical college hospitals in the State, at Gwalior, Rewa and Jabalpur, will be converted into superspeciality hospitals. Principal Secretary Medical Education Ajay Tirkey informed that superspeciality hospitals at the three places would cost Rs150 cr each.
The Central Government has approved the proposal. With construction of super specialty hospitals of the three medical colleges, complicated operations like kidney transplant, neurosurgery, heart stents, bypass surgery etc. and their treatment will be available in the State itself. Patients of the State will need not visit Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai etc. for this. State-of-the-art machines like GI Endoscope, Cath, Cath lab, Heart-lung machine etc. would be installed for complicated operations.
The facilities to be provided to three medical colleges are- Neurology, Neurosurgery, Surgical Gastroenterology, Paediatric Surgery, Nephrology, Urology, Neonatology and Anaesthesiology to Gwalior Medical College.
In Rewa Medical College, the facilities would be Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, Nephrology and Urology to Jabalpur Medical College. Besides, in Jabalpur, the facilities made available are- Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, Nephrology, Urology and Neonatology.
PS Tirkey informed that DPRs of super specialty hospitals of the three medical colleges of States have been sent to the Centre for approval before such proposals from other States. Courses of DM and MCH concerning super specialty hospitals will also be available in the State. The Central Government has appointed SCC as Project Management of the three medical colleges.