Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will gift construction works worth Rs 727 crore at Gandhi Medical College on Monday. Preparations for this have been completed. Medical Education Minister Vishwas Kailash Sarang reached the college on Saturday and took stock of the arrangements for the dedication and bhoomi-pujan ceremony.
Sarang said that health and medical facilities are being continuously expanded by the central government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. On August 28, Chief Minister Chouhan will dedicate the 2000 bedded hospital and emergency medicine department built at a cost of Rs 482 crore 5 lakh in the college and will lay the foundation of the new OPD building costing Rs 17 crore 52 lakh, construction work of Nursing College and Hostel along with OPD Registration Counter costing Rs 27 crore 4 lakh.
Chief Minister Chouhan will also inaugurate the Emergency Medicine Department of Hamidia Hospital. apprisiing about the facilities available in the department, Minister Sarang said that the treatment of the patients coming to Hamidia Hospital with any emergency will be prioritized, whereas tests and other formalities will be done later. This will ensure immediate treatment of injured or sick patients. Along with this, the availability of doctors of all disciplines in the department will prove helpful in proper treatment of the patient. With the starting of the Emergency Medicine Department, it will also be analysed that in what time medical facilities, facilities for examination or operation are being provided to the patient and what efforts are must to reduce the time being taken.
Proper arrangement for the family members to sit and information about the condition of the patient and where he is being treated will be displayed on the display in the waiting area.
There will be a radiology department near the department, in which all the facilities of X-ray, sonography, CT scan and MRI will be available to the patient without delay.
Three well-equipped operation theaters will be operated in the Emergency Medicine Department for the purpose of providing immediate operation facility to the injured patients.
Sarang said that the radiology department will be functioning on the ground floor of Block-1 of Hamidia Hospital. With this, patients will not need to go anywhere else for examination. State-of-the-art radiology facilities will also be started. A Central Clinical Lab equipped with state-of-the-art machines will also start in the new building. Through a single window in the lab, samples for testing of patients can be taken and reports will be made available to them from there. Along with this, a soft copy of the patient’s report will be sent to his registered mobile number and also to the concerned medical team, which will speed-up the treatment of the patient.
Minister Shri Sarang said that doctors of all disciplines will be available under one roof in the new OPD block.