Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday laid the foundation stone of the proposed Mahanadi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (MIMSR), a `492-crore CSR project of the Mahanadi Coalfields limited (MCl), at Talcher.
Union Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal and Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, State Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, local MP Tathagata Satpathy and MlA Braja Kishore Pradhan graced the occasion as guests.
MCl CMD AN Sahay, Director (Technical/Operations) AK Tiwari, Chief Vigilance Officer Deepak Srivastava, Director (Technical/Projects & Planning) JP Singh, Director (Personnel) PC Panigrahi and Director (Finance) KK Parida were also present.
The MIMSR would be a 100-seat medical college with a 500-bed multi-speciality hospital and would have state-of-the-art medical facilities in anatomy, bio-chemistry, micro-biology, physiology, FM, toxicology, pharmacology, pathology and community medicine departments.
The project envisages a hostel for 300 boys, another hostel for 200 girls, two blocks of hostel for 100 interns, a hostel for 57 junior resident doctors and a 50-bedded nurses’ hostel.
There would be 42 flats for faculty members and higher accommodation facility for professors and the head of the institution. Besides, the MIMSR campus would also have a modern gym, guest house and shopping arcade.