The State Government on Thursday announced plans to make the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack a world-class facility.
The Government would spend Rs 3,500 crore to transform the SCB into a world-class healthcare institution under the 5-T programme. A statement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office stated that the aim is to transform the SCB into an AIIMS-plus category facility.
The SCB would be transformed into a 5,000-bed hospital with modern facilities for patients and doctors in next three years. Initially, the hospital would be converted into a 3,500-bed institution and later another 1,500 beds would be added. The project would come up in 175 acres of land. The Government has planned to construct 1,280 staff quarters for the employees and hostels for more than 2,200 medical students of the SCB.During a review meeting for the project through videoconference, the Chief Minister directed the officials to form an independent managing committee for the new SCB Medical College and Hospital.
He informed that he is monitoring the project himself and hopes that the transformed SCB would be among the top three healthcare institutions of the country. The SCB, which was established in Cuttack in 1944, has been providing healthcare services to patients of Odisha and from other States in the eastern region.