Ahead of the Make in Odisha conclave, the State Government on Wednesday organised an investors’ meet in Chennai to attract private investments from Tamil Nadu in Odisha’s healthcare sector.
The meet saw an encouraging response from investors with Apollo, Kauvery, Dr Agarwal’s Eye Institute, Medallamong others. This road show comes on the back of the investors’ meet organized in New Delhi a fortnight ago where 52 healthcare investors had attended and evinced interest to explore investment opportunities in Odisha.
Speaking at the investors’ meet, Health Minister Pratap Jena said, “The State Government is committed for the growth of the healthcare infrastructure in the State mostly priority districts of the State.
The Government assures investors unmatched facilitation support to set up hospitals in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode by means of providing unencumbered land at competitive prices and viability gap funding during the crucial initial years of operations in addition to the multiple other benefits in the State’s Healthcare Investment Promotion Policy 2016.”
The 25 locations where affordable hospitals under PPP mode proposed to be set up by the Government of Odisha collectively entail investments to the tune of Rs 1,300 crore which would, in turn, create 2,900 new hospital beds, said Jena.
This is likely to create over 10,000 new high-paying and highly-skilled jobs in the health sector of Odisha, Jena added.
The other key proposal that was showcased to investors was the operations and maintenance support for the proposed cancer hospital at Jharsuguda on PPP mode.
This has been envisioned to provide quality cancer care services to 83 lakh people across the western Odisha districts.